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A Human Centrifuge To test the effects of high
Chapter 6, Problem 57P(choose chapter or problem)
Problem 57P
A Human Centrifuge To test the effects of high acceleration on the human body, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has constructed a large centrifuge at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. In this device, astronauts are placed in a capsule that moves in a circular path with a radius of 15 m. If the astronauts in this centrifuge experience a centripetal acceleration 9.0 times that of gravity, what is the linear speed of the capsule?
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Problem 57P
A Human Centrifuge To test the effects of high acceleration on the human body, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has constructed a large centrifuge at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. In this device, astronauts are placed in a capsule that moves in a circular path with a radius of 15 m. If the astronauts in this centrifuge experience a centripetal acceleration 9.0 times that of gravity, what is the linear speed of the capsule?
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The NASA designed a large centrifuge to test the human body. The radius of the circular path and the centripetal acceleration are given. The astronauts are put inside a capsule that moves in the circular path. We are going to find the linear speed of the capsule.
The centripetal acceleration acp = 9.0 g
The acceleration due to gravity g = 9.81 m/s2
The radius of the circular path r = 15 m