Newton's Satellite Directions: Read the background information and complete the activity Newton's Thought Experiment In the...
Newton's Thought Experiment In the seventeenth century, Sir Isaac Newton was studying the nature of motion and gravity. He formulated a thought experiment that would eventually become the basis of the development of satellites. Imagine an object is fired from a cannon horizontal to the plane of the earth. The projectile will travel in a horizontal direction and undergo projectile motion as gravity begins to pull the projectile downward However, the earth is a sphere, which means as the projectile...
Show work/formula Like Newton, you will calculate the speed of a projectile to determine how to put an object in orbit. In addition, with your calculations, you will provide a diagram that shows the projectile and how it would move when it becomes a “satellite.” Here is the information you require: The projectile’s mass is not needed. The projectile must be launched on the horizontal plane. The earth drops 8 inches for every mile traveled. The...
Newton’s Cannon Imagine you fired a cannonball such that the range of that ball was slightly longer than the radius of the Earth. As that ball fell back down, it would miss the ground and continue to fall. If we can ignore any air resistance or collisions with other objects, then we can say the ball would continue to fall forever, just missing the ground, and thus be in orbit. Assume all orbits here are perfectly circular and pretend that...
Newton's version of Kepler's Law Force Example Use what we know about the earth's orbit to estimate the mass of the sun. For this problem we can use Newton's form of Kepler's law Solving for the sum of the masses we get to use this law we need all our values to be kilograms, meters, and seconds. a 1AU-149.6x10P m and p- 1 year (365.25 days/year)(24 hours/day)(3600 seconds/hour)-3.15x 10" sec. Placing these values in to our equation we get M+...
A rocket carrying a new 945-kg satellite into orbit misfires and places the satellite in an orbit with an altitude of 175 km, well below its operational altitude in low-Earth orbit. (a) What would be the height of the satellite's orbit if its total energy were 450 MJ greater? km (b) What would be the difference in the system's kinetic energy? (Include the sign of the value in your answer.) Mj (c) What would be the difference in the system's...
2. (1) A pendulum clock makes use of the fact that the period of a pendulum is consistent and can be predicted relatively easy. What should the length of a pendulum be if the desired frequency of oscillation is. 3. (1) Near the shore, Tsunamis travel at a speed of 30 mph and the distance between crests is about 6.5 miles. What is the frequency of such a wave? Give your answer in units of Hz. When one crest hits...
Good day, it there a way it can be proven using calculus that it takes only 42 minutes for an object to go through a tunnel at any place on earth. Low STAKES WRITING AssIGNMENT 6 (SiMPLe HARMONIC MoTION II - THE GrAVITY TRAIN) Do NOT submit this low stakes assignment! You will use this as part of the background for High Stakes Writing Assignment 2. Topic: Physics was Newton's primary motivation for inventing calculus. With his calculus and his...
1. Teresa Drops a Stone. (Allotted Time - 40 minutes) Teresa drops a stone from rest from the top of an extremely tall building on a huge planet with essentially no atmosphere. You may assume that the stone experiences a constant gravitational acceleration as it falls to the planet’s surface, but the magnitude of this acceleration may not be equal to that on Earth. Let d1 be the distance the rock travels during the 1st second of its fall, let...
Please answer the following physic questions. Thank you! 1. A dog sees a flowerpot sail up and then back past a window 5.0 ft high. If the total time the pot is in sight is 1.0 seconds, find the height above the window that the pot rises. 2. An elevator ascends with an upward acceleration of 4.0 ft/s2. At the instant its upward speed is 8.0 ft/s, a loose bolt drops from the ceiling of the elevator 9.0 ft from...