Very Hard Physcis Question, Who Can Help Me?

To test the effects of high acceleration on the human body, 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 of radius 15 m. If the astronauts in this centrifuge experience a centripetal acceleration 8 times that of gravity (or “8 g’s”), what must be the speed of the capsule?_____m/s

January 4, 2010 at 11:36 am by admin | Category: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , ,

4 Comments zu “Very Hard Physcis Question, Who Can Help Me?”

  1. phloweer
    1-4-2010 @ 14:18

    Solving physics problems requires one to overcome the
    “phear oph physics.”
    This is not a very hard question. Have fun thinking
    The answer is in your physics text, but here is a hints:
    The speed is equal to the langth of a revolution (2 pi R) times the number of revolutions per second where R is 15 m.
    The reference below may help.


  2. stop eating people, dammit
    1-4-2010 @ 15:15

    centripetal acceleration = radius * (angular velocity)^2 = v^2 / r


  3. Peter G
    1-4-2010 @ 21:16

    1g=9.98 m/s. Multiply that by 8


  4. Q-bert
    1-5-2010 @ 00:37

    DUDE THIS QUESTION IS SIMPLE, JUST CRACK UR TEXTBOOK AND LOOK UP THE EQUATIONS