CH 06

1, 2, 3 = straightforward, intermediate,
challenging Answer: (a) 0.105 m/s; (b) 1.10 × 10–2 m/s2
1. A toy car moving at constant speed 14. A car traveling on a straight road at
completes one lap around a circular track (a 9.00 m/s goes over a hump in the road. The
distance of 200 m) in 25.0 s. (a) What is its hump may be regarded as an arc of a circle
average speed? (b) If the mass of the car is of radius 11.0 m. (a) What is the apparent
1.50 kg, what is the magnitude of the force weight of a 600-N woman in the car as she
that keeps it in a circle? rides over the hump? (b) What must be the
speed of the car over the hump if she is to
Answer: (a) 8.00 m/s; (b) 3.02 N experience weightlessness? (That is, if her
apparent weight is zero.)
2. A 55.0-kg ice skater is moving at 4.00
m/s when she grabs the loose end of a rope, Answer: (a) 149 N; (b) 10.4 m/s
the opposite end of which is tied to a pole.
She then moves in a circle of radius 0.800 m 23. A merry-go-round makes one
around the pole. (a) Determine the force complete revolution in 12.0 s. If a 45.0-kg
exerted by the rope on her arms. (b) child sits on the horizontal floor of the
Compare this force with her weight. merry-go-round 3.00 m from the center,
find (a) the child’s acceleration and (b) the
Answer: (a) 1100 N; (b) the tension is 2.04 horizontal force of friction that acts on the
times larger than her weight child. (c) What minimum coefficient of
static friction is necessary to keep the child
6. A satellite of mass 300 kg is in a from slipping?
circular orbit around the Earth at an
altitude equal to the Earth’s mean radius Answer: (a) 0.822 m/s2; (b) 37.0 N; (c) 0.0839
(see Example 6.6). Find (a) the satellite’s
orbital speed, (b) the period of its 32. (a) Estimate the terminal speed of a
revolution, and (c) the gravitational force wooden sphere (density 0.830 g/cm3) falling
acting on it. through the air if its radius is 8.00 cm. (b)
From what height would a freely falling
Answer: (a) 5.59 × 103 m/s; (b) 239 min; (c) object reach this speed in the absence of air
735 N resistance?
8. The speed of the tip of the minute Answer: (a) 53.8 m/s; (b) 148 m
hand on a town clock is 1.75 × 10–3 m/s. (a)
What is the speed of the tip of the second 46. An 1 800-kg car passes over a bump
hand of the same length? (b) What is the in a road that follows the arc of a circle of
centripetal acceleration of the tip of the radius 42.0 m as in Figure P6.46. (a) What
second hand? force does the road exert on the car as the
car passes the highest point of the bump if
the car travels at 16.0 m/s? (b) What is the
maximum speed the car can have as it
passes this highest point before losing
contact with the road?
Figure P6.51
Figure P6.46 Answer: (a) 9.80 N; (b) 9.80 N; (c) 6.26 m/s
Answer: (a) 6.67 × 103 N; (b) 20.3 m/s 54. A string under a tension of 50.0 N is
used to whirl a rock in a horizontal circle of
48. In one model of a hydrogen atom, radius 2.50 m at a speed of 20.4 m/s. The
the electron in orbit around the proton string is pulled in and the speed of the rock
experiences an attractive force of about 8.20 increases. When the string is 1.00 m long
× 10–8 N. If the radius of the orbit is 5.30 × and the speed of the rock is 51.0 m/s, the
10–11 m, how many revolutions does the string breaks. What is the breaking strength
electron make each second? (This number (in newtons) of the string?
of revolutions per unit time is called the
frequency of the motion.) See the inside front Answer: 780 N
cover for additional data.
55. A child’s toy consists of a small
15
Answer: 6.56 × 10 rev/s wedge that has an acute angle θ (Fig.
P6.55). The sloping side of the wedge is
51. An air puck of mass 0.250 kg is tied frictionless, and a mass m on it remains at
to a string and allowed to revolve in a circle constant height if the wedge is spun at a
of radius 1.00 m on a frictionless horizontal certain constant speed. The wedge is spun
table. The other end of the string passes by rotating a vertical rod that is firmly
through a hole in the center of the table, attached to the wedge at the bottom end.
and a mass of 1.00 kg is tied to it (Fig. Show that, when the mass sits a distance L
P6.51). The suspended mass remains in up along the sloping side, the speed of the
equilibrium while the puck on the tabletop mass must be
revolves. What are (a) the tension in the
string, (b) the force exerted by the string on
the puck, and (c) the speed of the puck?
Figure P6.55
Answer:
57. For a satellite to move in a stable

circular orbit at a constant speed, its
centripetal acceleration must be inversely
proportional to the square of the radius r of
the orbit. (a) Show that the tangential speed
of a satellite is proportional to r –1/2. (b)
Show that the time required to complete
one orbit is proportional to r 3/2.
Answer: (a) (b)

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1, 2, 3 = straightforward, intermediate,

challenging Answer: (a) 0.105 m/s; (b) 1.10 × 10–2 m/s2

57. For a satellite to move in a stable

Answer: (a) (b)

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