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At what speed will a car round a 52-m-radius curve, banked at a 45° angle, if no friction is required
between the road and tires to prevent the car from slipping?
Selected Answer: 23 m/s
Question 2
If a planet has a radius 20% greater than that of the Earth but has the same
mass as the Earth, what is the acceleration due to gravity at its surface?
Selected Answer: 6.8 m/s2
Question 3
The escape speed from the surface of the Earth is 11.2 km/s. Estimate the escape
speed for a spacecraft from the surface of the Moon. The Moon has a mass 1/81
that of Earth and a radius 0.25 that of Earth.
Selected Answer: 2.5 km/s
Question 4
Calculate the linear speed due to the Earth's rotation for a person at the equator of the Earth. The radius of the Earth is 6.40
x 106 m.
Selected Answer: 465 m/s
Question 6
If a planet has 3 times the radius of the Earth, but has the same density as the
Earth, what is the gravitational acceleration at the surface of the planet?
Selected Answer: 3.27 m/s2
Question 9
The Earth is 93 million miles (mi) from the Sun and its period of revolution is 1
year = 3.15 x 107 s. What is the acceleration of the Earth in its orbit about the
Sun?
Selected Answer: 3.7 x10-6 mi/s2
Question 11
Somewhere between the Earth and the Moon is a point where the gravitational
attraction of the Earth is canceled by the gravitational pull of the Moon. The mass
of the Moon is 1/81 that of the Earth. How far from the center of the Earth is this
point?
An object when orbiting the Earth at a height of three Earth radii from the center
of the Earth has a weight of 1.00 N. What is the object's mass?
Selected Answer: 0.92 kg
Question 13
If the mass of Mars is 0.107 times that of Earth, and its radius is 0.530 that of
Earth, estimate the gravitational acceleration g at the surface of Mars.
Selected Answer: 3.73 m/s2
Question 17
A satellite is in a circular orbit about the Earth at a distance of one Earth radius
above the surface. What is the speed of the satellite?
Selected Answer: 5600 m/s
Question 18
A ventilation fan has blades 0.25 m long rotating at 20 rpm. What is the
centripetal acceleration of a point on the outer tip of a blade?
Selected Answer: 1.1 m/s2
Question 19
An Earth satellite is orbiting at a distance from the Earth's surface equal to one
Earth radius (4 000 miles). At this location, the acceleration due to gravity is
what factor times the value of g at the Earth's surface?
Selected Answer: 1/4
Question 21
An airplane in a wide sweeping "outside" loop can create zero gees inside the
aircraft cabin. What must be the radius of curvature of the flight path for an
aircraft moving at 150 m/s to create a condition of "weightlessness" inside the
aircraft?
Selected Answer: 2300 m
Question 22
The distance from the center of a Ferris wheel to a passenger seat is 12 m. What
centripetal acceleration does a passenger experience when the wheel's angular
speed is 4.78 rpm?
Selected Answer: 3.0 m/s2
Question 23
Calculate the linear speed due to the Earth's rotation for a person at a point on its surface located at
40o N latitude. The radius of the Earth is 6.40 x 106 m.
Selected Answer: 357 m/s
Question 24