An accelerometer (a device to measure acceleration) can be as simple as a small pendulum. Suppose you are flying a small plane in a straight horizontal line and your accelerometer hangs 10 behind the vertical. What is your acceleration? (Use the numbers given in the question)
2006-09-22 08:56:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
You mean 10 degrees? If so, your acceleration is sin(10)*9.8 = 1.7 m/s^2.
2006-09-22 08:58:10 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Acceleration is zero if you're traveling at a consistent 10 behind the vertical.
I'm pretty sure I'm right. Acceleration is about the change in speed or direction. The situation described above is stable: Hanging 10 behind the vertical and flying is a straight line.
Or maybe I'm wrong.. who cares
2006-09-22 09:03:41 · answer #2 · answered by RUNINTLKT 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
F=ma is the horizontal force due to the plane's acceleration and L=mg is the vertical load due to the mass. The line made by the pendulum denotes the resultant direction of the two forces thus,
tan10=F/L=ma/mg=a/g
a=g*tan10=9.81*tan10=1.73 m/s^2
2006-09-24 03:05:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Runintlkt, thats not right. If there were no acceleration, the pendulum would be vertical.
2006-09-22 11:19:55 · answer #4 · answered by lewa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10 is 10 degrees then
m.a force due to acceleration of the plane
m.g force due to hearth gravity
m.a/m.g=Tg(10)
a=Tg(10)*m*g/m
a=Tg(10)*g
2006-09-22 09:01:40 · answer #5 · answered by runlolarun 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋