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Chapter 7 Problem 13

Question

Air in a 120-km/h wind strikes head-on the face of a building 45 m wide by 75 m high and is brought to rest. If air has a mass of 1.3 kg per cubic meter, determine the average force of the wind on the building.

Solution

Problem 13

Air in a 120-km/h wind strikes head-on the face of a building 45 m wide by 75 m high and is brought to rest. If air has a mass  of 1.3 kg per cubic meter, determine the average force  of the wind on the building.

 

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Step 1 of 3 

The general equation of the average force acting on an object is given  as the ratio of change in the momentum to the duration of the impact.

 

 

Here,  is the mass of the air,  is the final velocity of the air,  is the initial velocity of the air, and  is the duration of the impact of the air on the building.

The mass of the air is . The amount of air that strikes the building is the air enclosed at a distance of 1m in front of the building. That is .

Thus the mass of the air is,

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Title Physics: Principles with Applications 7 
Author Douglas C. Giancoli
ISBN 9780321625922

Air in a 120-km/h wind strikes head-on the face of a

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