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    1. This document provides 9 suggested physics problems involving concepts like drag forces, rocket propulsion, orbital mechanics, center of mass calculations, and projectile motion. 2. Problem 1 asks to find the velocity of a mass coasting with drag and the time it comes to rest. Problem 2 asks about changes to a spinning asteroid's angular velocity as its radius increases. 3. Problem 3 asks to find the center of mass and comment on the positions of Earth and Moon.

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    1. This document provides 9 suggested physics problems involving concepts like drag forces, rocket propulsion, orbital mechanics, center of mass calculations, and projectile motion. 2. Problem 1 asks to find the velocity of a mass coasting with drag and the time it comes to rest. Problem 2 asks about changes to a spinning asteroid's angular velocity as its radius increases. 3. Problem 3 asks to find the center of mass and comment on the positions of Earth and Moon.

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    1. This document provides 9 suggested physics problems involving concepts like drag forces, rocket propulsion, orbital mechanics, center of mass calculations, and projectile motion. 2. Problem 1 asks to find the velocity of a mass coasting with drag and the time it comes to rest. Problem 2 asks about changes to a spinning asteroid's angular velocity as its radius increases. 3. Problem 3 asks to find the center of mass and comment on the positions of Earth and Moon.

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    Suggested Problems E1

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    1. This document provides 9 suggested physics problems involving concepts like drag forces, rocket propulsion, orbital mechanics, center of mass calculations, and projectile motion. 2. Problem 1 asks to find the velocity of a mass coasting with drag and the time it comes to rest. Problem 2 asks about changes to a spinning asteroid's angular velocity as its radius increases. 3. Problem 3 asks to find the center of mass and comment on the positions of Earth and Moon.

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    PHYS 361 Suggested Problems (e1) 1.

    . A mass m has velocity Vo at time t = 0 and coasts along the x axis in a medium where the drag force is F(v) = -cv 3/2. Find v in terms of the time t and the other given parameters. At what time (if any) will it come to rest? 2. A uniform spherical asteroid of radius Ro is spinning with angular velocity Wo. As the eons go by, it picks up more matter until its radius is R. Assuming that its density remains the same and that the additional matter was originally at rest relative to the asteroid (anyway on average), find the asteroid's new angular velocity. (You know from elementary physics that the moment of inertia is I =2/5MR2.) What is the final angular velocity if the radius doubles? 3. The masses of the earth and moon are Me 6.0 X 1024 and Mm 7.4 X 1022 (both in kg) and their center to center distance is 3.8 x 105 km. Find the position of their CM and comment. (The radius of the earth is Re 6.4 X 103km.) 4. (a) Prove that the CM of any two particles (1 and 2) always lies on the line joining them (write down the vector that points from m1 to the CM and show that it has the same direction as the vector from m1 to m2) (b) Prove that the distances from the CM to m1 and m2 are in the ratio m2/m1. Explain why if m1 is much greater than m2 the CM lies very close to the position of m1. 5. The first couple of minutes of the launch of a space shuttle can be described very roughly as follows: The initial mass is 2 x 106 kg, the final mass (after 2 minutes) is about 1 x 106 kg, the average exhaust speed vex is about 3000 m/s, and the initial velocity is, of course, zero. If all this were taking place in outer space, with negligible gravity, what would be the shuttle's speed at the end of this stage? What is the thrust during the same period and how does it compare with the initial total weight of the shuttle (on earth)? 6. Consider a rocket traveling in a straight line subject to an external force Fext acting along the same line. Show that the equation of motion is:

    7. Find the terminal speeds in air of (a) a steel ball bearing of diameter 3 mm, (b) a 16-pound steel shot, and (c) a 200-pound parachutist in free fall in the fetal position. In all three cases, you can safely assume the drag force is purely quadratic. The density of steel is about 8 g/cm3 and you can treat the parachutist as a sphere of density 1 g/cm3. 8. A rocket (initial mass mo) needs to use its engines to hover stationary, just above the ground. (a) If it can afford to burn no more than a mass mo of its fuel, for how long can it hover? [Hint: Write down the condition that the thrust just balance the force of gravity. You can integrate the resulting equation by separating the variables t and m. Take Vex to be constant.] (b) If Vex ~ 3000 m/s and ~ 10%, for how long could the rocket hover just above the earth's surface?

    9. a. Obtain the expressions for the polar components of the velocity and the acceleration of a particle whose two-dimensional position vector is specified as below:

    b. Sketch the trajectory of the particle

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