Assignment 1 Dynamics Sem 2 - 2011/2012

Submission due: 1 day before TEST-1 1. Figure below shows an airplane during landing on the airplane track. After deploying its parachute, the airplanes acceleration ( in m/s2 ) is given by the function of a= -0.004 v2 , where v is the velocity in m/s. a. Determine the time required, t for the airplanes velocity to decrease from 80 m/s to 10 m/s b. Sketch the graph of velocity with time when the velocity decreases from 80 m/s to 10 m/s. c. What distance does the airplane travel as its velocity decreases from 80 m/s to 10 m/s ?

2. A bullet is fired from a barrel as illustrated in Figure below. The speed of the bullet when it is fired is 500 m/s. The barrel is pointing to point A, but the bullet is hitting point B. The earth acceleration due to the gravity is recorded 10 m/s2. a. Calculate the time, t when the bullet touches B. b. Find the height, h of B measured from the ground c. Compute the distance below A to the point B where the bullet strikes.

3. At instant shown in Figure below, car A and car B are in a position of side by side. At this position, the speed of car B is faster than car A. At that instant, the turning radius of car A is 200 m and the turning radius of car B is 180 m. The relative velocity of car B observed from car A is detected as 5 m/s. It is known that both cars are turning with constant speeds and that the relative acceleration of car B with respect to car A is 10 m/s2 directed toward the centre of curvature of the car B track. a. Draw the illustration of vector velocity car of A (vA), vector velocity car of B (vB) and vector velocity relative of car B observed from car A (vB/A) b. Draw the illustration of vector acceleration of car A (aA), vector acceleration of car B (aB) and vector acceleration relative of car B observed from car A (aB/A) c. Determine the speed of the car A. d. Determine the speed of the car B.

4. A car as is travelling at a constant speed v0 = 100 km/h on the level portion of the road. When the 6-percent (tan = 6/100) inclined is encountered, the driver does not change the throttle setting and consequently the car decelerates at a constant acceleration value of g sin . a. Determine the speed of the car 10 seconds after passing point A b. Determine the speed of the car when s = 100 m

5. Determine the vertical rise h as illustrated in Figure below, of the load W during 10 seconds if the hoisting motor M draws in the cable at the constant rate rotation 10 rpm.
The diameter of the pulley 10 cm.

6. Instruments in air plane A indicate that with respect to the air the plane is headed 30o north of east with an airspeed of 480 km/h. At the same time, radar on ship B indicates that relative velocity of the plane with respect to the ship is 416 km/h in the direction 33o north of east. Knowing that the ship is steaming due south at 20 km/h a. Determine the velocity of the air plane b. The wind speed and the direction

7. A test rocket is fired vertically from the launching pad at B and tracked by a radar station shown in the figure below. When the rocket is at the position P, the angle of elevation detected from the ground controller, = 60 . Other corresponding data captured by the radar: r = 9 km, = 21 m/s2 and = 0.02 rad/s. Calculate the magnitude of the velocity and acceleration of the rocket when = 60o.

8.

A helicopter is taking off at a constant angle 60o as illustrated in figure below. Its flight is tracked by radar at A, located 3 km from the take off point. The radar reads the angular velocity of the helicopter when the location at B, = 0.01 rad/s.

a. Calculate the vertical position of the helicopter measured from its taking off position. b. Calculate the velocity of the helicopter v.

9. To increase his speed, the water skier A (see figure below) cuts across the wake of the tow boat B, which has a velocity of 60 km/h. At instant when = 30o, the actual path of the skier makes an angle = 50o with the tow rope. a. Draw clearly the vector diagrams clearly (including the angles) of vA, vB and vAB. b. Calculate the velocity of the skier, vA c. Calculate the angular velocity of the rope,

10. A projectile is launched at location A as illustrated below with an initial velocity vA = 150 km/h. The direction of this initial velocity is 45o with respect to the inclined surface which is 15o angle to the horizontal surface (x-axis). If the gravitational acceleration is assumed as 10 m/s2, a. Find the location of B where the projectile reaches the maximum height. The
location should be expressed in a complete coordinate x-y system, informing xB and yB. b. Find the location of C where the projectile touches the inclined surface. The location should be expressed in a complete coordinate x-y system, informing xC and yC. c. The magnitude and the direction of the velocity of the projectile when it hits the surface at C.