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This document contains solutions to multiple physics problems: 1) It calculates the weight in newtons and pounds of a 75kg man on Earth. 2) It calculates the weight in newtons and pounds of an 80kg man in a space craft orbiting 250km above Earth. 3) It determines the weight in newtons, mass in slugs, and mass in kilograms of a man whose weight in pounds is 130. 4) It calculates the magnitude of the force exerted by Earth on the Moon, in newtons and pounds. 5) It determines the angle and unit vector of a vector V = -10i + 24j with respect to the positive x-axis.

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Problems Set 01

This document contains solutions to multiple physics problems: 1) It calculates the weight in newtons and pounds of a 75kg man on Earth. 2) It calculates the weight in newtons and pounds of an 80kg man in a space craft orbiting 250km above Earth. 3) It determines the weight in newtons, mass in slugs, and mass in kilograms of a man whose weight in pounds is 130. 4) It calculates the magnitude of the force exerted by Earth on the Moon, in newtons and pounds. 5) It determines the angle and unit vector of a vector V = -10i + 24j with respect to the positive x-axis.

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BME BME-131 131

What is the weight eight in b th newtons both t and d pounds d of f a 75kg 75k ? man?
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m = 75 kg g = 9.81 9 81 m/s / (a) ( ) W = mg g = 75 9.81 = 735.75 735 75 N (b) 1 lb = 4.4482 N


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1 lb W = 735.75 N 4.4482 N = 165.40 lb

From

the gravitational law calculate the weight W (gravitational force with ith respect t to t the th earth) th) of f an 80kg 80k man in a space p craft travelling g in a circular orbit 250km above the earths earth s surface surface. Express W in newtons and pounds?
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G m1m 2 r2 m3 11 G=6 6.673 673 10 kg.s 2 m1 = 80 kg g mass of earth, m 2 = 5.976 1024 kg radius di of f earth, h = 6371 103 m r = 6371 103 + 250 103 m (a) F = W =
6.673 1011 80 5.976 1024 W= (6621 103 ) 2

= 728 N (b) 1 lb = 4.4482 N


1 lb W = 728 N 4 4482 N 4.4482
= 163.6 lb

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Determine

the weight in newtons of a man whose g in p pounds is 130. weight Also find his mass in slugs and in kilograms?

(a) 1 lb = 4.4482 4 4482 N

W = 130 lb

4.4482 N 1 lb

= 578.26 N W (b) W = mg m = , g = 32.2 ft/sec 2 g 130 = = 4.04 slugs 32 2 32.2


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W (c) W = mg m = , g = 9.81 m/s 2 g 578.26 = 9 81 9.81 = 58.94 kg g

Compute

the magnitude F of a force which the earth exerts on the moon. Perform your calculations l l i first fi i in newtons and then convert your results p to pounds?
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G me mm (a) F = r2 m3 11 G = 6.673 10 k 2 kg.s mass of earth, m e = 5.976 1024 kg mass of moon, m m = 0.0123 5.976 1024 kg M mean distance Moons di t to t earth th

( center to center ) = 384 398 km

G me mm (a) F = r2 (6.673 1011 ) (5.976 1024 ) 2 (0.0123) = ( (384398 103 ) 2


= 1.984 1 984 1020 N 1 lb (b) ( ) F = 1.984 10 N 4.4482 N = 4.46 1019 lb
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Determine the angle made by y the vector V=-10i+24j with the positive x-axis. Write the unit vector n in the direction of V?

V= Vx 2 +Vy 2
V = (-10) 2 + (24) 2

= 26 (a) cos x = -10 26

V (b) n = V -10 i+24j = 26


n = -0.385 i + 0.923j

-10 x = cos 1 ( ) 26 x = 112.6o

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