In traveling to the Moon, astronauts aboard the Apollo spacecraft put themselves into a slow rotation to distribute the Sun's energy evenly. At the start of their trip, they accelerated uniformly from no rotation to one revolution every minute during a 10 min time interval. The spacecraft can be thought of as a cylinder with a diameter of 8.1 m.
(a) Determine the angular acceleration.
rad/s2
(b) Determine the radial and tangential component of the linear acceleration of a point on the skin of the ship 2.0 min after it started this acceleration.
1. radial
m/s2
2. tangential
m/s2
(a) Determine the angular acceleration.
rad/s2
(b) Determine the radial and tangential component of the linear acceleration of a point on the skin of the ship 2.0 min after it started this acceleration.
1. radial
m/s2
2. tangential
m/s2