Physics-ch-4/exercise 37
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Physics for Scientists and Engineers (9th Edition)

Chapter-4

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Question 37





Q37: The 20-g centrifuge at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, is a horizontal, cylindrical tube 58.0ft long and is represented in Fig- ure P4.37. Assume an astronaut in training sits in a seat at one end, facing the axis of rotation ft away. Determine the rotation rate, in revolutions per second, required to give the astronaut a centripetal accelera- tion of 20.0g.

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