ENERGY AND MOMENTUM: Artificial Gravity in a Spinning Spacecraft.

Q: A team of engineers is building a spaceship to go to Jupiter. Their design includes a gravity ring, a spinning section where (in the ring’s reference frame) astronauts are pushed outwards by the centrifugal force.   In their current design, the ring has to spin once every ten seconds in order to provide the sameContinue reading “ENERGY AND MOMENTUM: Artificial Gravity in a Spinning Spacecraft.”

ENERGY AND MOMENTUM: ( x ) and ( y ) Vector Components of Motion.

Q: A steel ball of mass 10 kg moves due East at 5.0 m/s. It collides with a rubber ball of mass 5.0 kg moving at 10 m/s due North. After the collision the steel ball moves at an angle of 60° East of North with a speed of 4.0 m/s. What is the velocityContinue reading “ENERGY AND MOMENTUM: ( x ) and ( y ) Vector Components of Motion.”