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Subject: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Class/review53/node10.html
Category: Science > Physics
Asked by: m00se-ga
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Posted: 10 Mar 2005 11:46 PST
Expires: 18 Mar 2005 20:40 PST
Question ID: 491754
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Class/review53/node10.html
In addition to the question in the link, please colculate:
same calculation but assuming moon is sphere radius 1738 km
gravitational constant 4.90287e3. Thanks
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Subject: Re: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Class/review53/node10.html
From: uiuc_guy-ga on 16 Mar 2005 22:51 PST
 
a) Since the initial horizontal velocity zero, vertical motion is 
equivalen to a free fall on the moon. 
H=1/2 * a_m * t_f^2
t_f = squareroot (2*H/a_m) = 29.97 sec

b) R= v_o * t_f = 3596.41 meters

c) total velocity v_f = squareroot(v_o^2 +v_vertical^2) 
              and v_vertical = a_m * t_f = 50.05 m/sec
                  v_f = 130.02 m/sec

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As to the answer to your last question, I assume the unit of the
gravitational constant you gave is meter/sec^2, and very very high
value.

mountain top is only 750 meter high, only 0.75km/1783 =0.00043 less
than one thousandth of the radius of the moon which is negligible, so
we can disregard the curvature of the moon, and can accept the
gravitational constant unchanged during the motion.
so 
instead od a_m=1.67 m/sec^2  we will assume a_m=4.90287e3 = 4902.87 m/sec^2
a)t_f= 0.55 sec
b)R= 66.37 meters
c)v_f= 2699.25 m/sec

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