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    Physics 122

    Chapter 11 – Projectile and Circular Motion


    Problems – Circular Motion

    1. An electric train moving at constant speed on a circular track of radius 1.0 m


    goes around the track every 10 s. What is the centripetal acceleration of the
    train?

    2. A plane flying at a constant speed in a circular path of radius 5500 m completes


    one revolution every 485 s.
    a) What is the speed of the plane?
    b) What is the acceleration of the plane?

    3. A stone attached to a string 2.0 m long is whirled in a horizontal circle. At what


    speed must the stone move for its centripetal acceleration to equal to g?

    4. The blade of a fan is 0.20 m long and makes 20 revolutions per second. What
    acceleration is experienced by a particle at the end of the blade?

    5. An electron moves in a circular path of radius 0.20 m at a constant speed of


    2.0 x 106 m/s.
    a) What is the period of its motion?
    b) What is its centripetal acceleration?

    6. An object moving a long a circular path at a constant speed of 8.0 m/s completes
    one trip around the circle in 5.0 s.
    a) What is the radius of the circle?
    b) What is the acceleration of the object?

    7. A student attaches a mass of 0.5 kg to one end of a rope. The student then
    swings the mass in a horizontal circle having a radius of 1 m so that the
    tangential speed is 4 m/s. What centripetal force must be exerted on the mass to
    keep it moving in a circle?

    8. An artificial satellite has a period of 5.6 x 103 s and an orbital radius of


    6.8 x 106 m. If its mass is 2.0 x 103 kg, what is the centripetal force keeping it in
    orbit?

    9. If a 620 kg racecar takes 15.2 s to travel at constant speed once around a circular
    race track of 50.0 m radius, what are the centripetal acceleration of the car and
    centripetal force exerted by the track on the car’s tires?

    10. A knight holds a 1.6 m chain attached to 10.0 kg mace. He whirls the mace in a
    circle. If the mace has a frequency of 0.20 Hz, what is the centripetal
    acceleration of the mace and the tension in the chain?
    Answers

    1. The centripetal acceleration of the train is 0.39 m/s2.


    2. a) The speed of the plane is 71.2 m/s.
    b)The acceleration of the plane is 0.922 m/s2.
    3. Its speed must be 4.4 m/s.
    4.The particle experiences an acceleration of 3.2 x 103 m/s2.
    5. a) The period is 6.3 x 10-7 s.
    b) The centripetal acceleration is 2.0 x 1013 m/s2.
    6.a)The radius of the circle was 6.4 m.
    b)The acceleration of the object is 10 m/s2.
    7. The centripetal force is 8 N.
    8. The centripetal force is 1.7 x 104 N.
    9. The centripetal acceleration and centripetal force are 8.53 m/s2 and 5.29 x 103 N
    10.The centripetal acceleration is 2.5 m/s2 and the tension in the chain is 25 N.

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