Mechanical Astronaut
Mechanical Astronaut
Difficult physics question?
As their booster rockets separate Space Shuttle astronauts typically feel accelerations up to 3 g, where g = 9.80 m/s2. In their training, astronauts ride in a device that is experiencing this kind of acceleration, a centripetal acceleration. In particular, the astronaut is fastened securely at the end of a mechanical arm that then turns at constant speed in a horizontal circle. Find the speed of rotation in revolutions per second, required to give an astronaut a centripetal acceleration of 2.68g, while in the circular motion of radius 9.56 m.
a = w ^ R = 2.68 2 * a * g, where g = 9.80 r = 9.56 m = w? His answer is equal to W / (2 * Pi)
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