Chapter 13: Q. 5 (page 353)
A space station astronaut is working outside the station as it orbits the earth. If he drops a hammer, will it fall to earth? Explain why or why not.
It will NOT fall to earth, rather it will be floating in space.
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While visiting Planet Physics, you toss a rock straight up at 11 m/s and catch it 2.5 s later. While you visit the surface, your cruise ship orbits at an altitude equal to the planet’s radius every 230 min. What are the (a) mass and (b) radius of Planet Physics?
In Problems 64 through 66 you are given the equation(s) used to
solve a problem. For each of these, you are to
a. Write a realistic problem for which this is the correct equation(s).
b. Draw a pictorial representation.
c. Finish the solution of the problem.
Two spherical asteroids have the same radius . Asteroidhas mass and asteroid has mass The two asteroids are released from rest with distance between their centers. What is the speed of each asteroid just before they collide?
Hint: You will need to use two conservation laws.
The escape speed from Planet X is 10,000 m/s. Planet Y has the same radius as Planet X but is twice as dense. What is the escape speed from Planet Y?
Let’s look in more detail at how a satellite is moved from one circular orbit to another. FIGURE shows two circular orbits, of radii localid="1651418485730" and localid="1651418489556" , and an elliptical orbit that connects them. Points and are at the ends of the semimajor axis of the ellipse.
a. A satellite moving along the elliptical orbit has to satisfy two conservation laws. Use these two laws to prove that the velocities at points localid="1651418503699" and localid="1651418499267" are localid="1651418492993" and localid="1651418509687" The prime indicates that these are the velocities on the elliptical orbit. Both reduce to Equation if localid="1651418513535" .
b. Consider a localid="1651418519576" communications satellite that needs to be boosted from an orbit localid="1651418573632" above the earth to a geosynchronous orbit localid="1651418578672" above the earth. Find the velocity localid="1651418584351" on the inner circular orbit and the velocity localid="1651418590277" at the low point on the elliptical orbit that spans the two circular orbits.
c. How much work must the rocket motor do to transfer the satellite from the circular orbit to the elliptical orbit?
d. Now find the velocity localid="1651418596735" at the high point of the elliptical orbit and the velocity v2 of the outer circular orbit.
e. How much work must the rocket motor do to transfer the satellite from the elliptical orbit to the outer circular orbit?
f. Compute the total work done and compare your answer to the result of Example localid="1651418602767" .
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