Body Definition and 1000 Threads

  1. O

    Rigid Body Problem: Solve Force & Direction for 491 N

    Homework Statement Given the following diagram If the crate produces a force of gravity of 491 N from the center of gravity G, determine the normal force on both of the wheels and the magnitude and direction of the minimum force required at the grip B needed to lift the load. Homework...
  2. A

    Is maximum human torque limited by body weight? (cycling)

    I have tried to get some answers related to a humans ability to produce power and torque on cycling forums with mixed response. So I came to the experts to help me out! Basically some cyclist belief that the maximum torque a human can produce is solely limited by their body weight keeping them...
  3. J

    Help please -- Free body diagram for a weightlifter?

    Homework Statement A weightlifter stands up at constant speed from a squatting position while holding a heavy barbell across his shoulders. Draw the free body diagram of the lifer using Fg, normal force, and force by barbell Homework Equations Fnet=0 ? The Attempt at a Solution I tried...
  4. Mr Davis 97

    Representing Free body diagrams

    I have a simple question. I know that the objects that we work with in introductory physics are point particles. Thus, say we have a picture frame that is put on a wall. There is a wire holding it up, where the wire is attached to the top right and the top left corners of the frame. The passes...
  5. G

    Engineering a body with an intrinsic curvature

    I don't know much about differential geometry but I hope this is a good place to ask and that my question "makes sense" I have heard that an ornamental cabbage leaf is an example of a surface with an intrinsic curvature. If one wanted to make such a surface from scratch(and to detailed...
  6. nicholas0211510

    Cutting force (large astronomical body)

    I know this is a weird topic but the thought has pestered me lately. How much energy would it take to cut a large astronomical body in half (assuming its a uniform sphere). Let's say a object the size of the moon with the same overall density of the moon. Say the blade used to cut it is as hard...
  7. F

    O Physics: Bose-Einstein Condensates and Laser Cooling

    Heat is a type of energy that is transferable and increases thermal energy. Thermal energy is being released as infrared radiation hence the term heat vision. Does that mean heat is capable of producing so called black body radiation here. Is the infrared radiation caused by the photon emission...
  8. W

    Free body diagram of pin support and cable

    Homework Statement A) Draw a free body B) determine the tension in rope A and the reactions in B. Homework Equations [/B] Standard equilibrium equations The Attempt at a Solution My free body shows a collinear force T through the rope, the given downward force at 5ft, and then a Bx and By...
  9. J

    Instability of free rigid body rotation about middle axis

    Hi everyone, I was recently talking to someone with a non-maths background about rotational stability, in particular how rotation is stable around the largest and smallest principal moments but not the intermediate one. He asked me if there was any 'obvious' reason for this, but one didn't...
  10. B

    Why is Black body radiation continuous?

    My name is Bradley and I am a first year university student attending Intro to Quantum mechanics lectures but didn't understand... Why the black body radiation curve (unlike the quantized emission seen from atomic spectra), is continuous over all frequencies. I am wondering what exactly gives...
  11. R

    Can I apply Bernoulli's equation to rigid body rotation?

    1. The problem statement, all variables and given/know Say I have a can of water, and I am rotating it about its central axis at a constant angular rate. The water in the tank should make a 3D almost parabolic curve as it touches the the walls of the tank. Can I use Bernoulli's equation along...
  12. W

    Setting up systems of forces and free body diagrams

    Homework Statement Suppose I've got a static mass on a downward plane. (For instance a car on a drive way). How would you set up this free body diagram? Homework Equations F = f1+f2...etc The Attempt at a Solution My preference is A, but I've seen it displayed in examples in my book as B...
  13. A

    Statics: four crates, four springs, free body diagram

    Homework Statement In figure (a), four identical crates weighing 2,000 lb each are stacked one on top of another, and in figure (b) a simple model for determining the deformation of the stack of crates is shown. In this model, each spring has the same stiffness k = 4,500 lb/in. and the forces...
  14. A

    Equilibrium of a Collar and Pulley System with Spring - Free Body Diagram

    Homework Statement A collar with a pulley slides on a frictionless vertical bar GH. A string A B C D is wrapped around, where portion AB of the string is horizontal. A spring with 2.5 lb/in. stiffness is placed between the collar and point H. The spring has 7 in. unstreched length and 5 in...
  15. N

    Source of potential energy of body made in space falling

    Hey all, question about gravitational potential energy. If an object begins on ground then gains height when it falls then energy it consumes to fall down was the potential created by moving upwards, if an object was created in space, then moves gravitationally towards a celestial body where...
  16. I

    What happens when you rotate a rigid body

    Hi, I have a question about rigid body rotation. If I have a rod out in space in free float and I attach a battery powered fan to center of mass and then the fan is turned on to spin in a clockwise direction, then the rod should spin in a counterclockwise direction. This much I...
  17. Xu Shuang

    Anyone read The Three Body Problem?

    It's the best science fiction novel from my country for now. First long Chinese sci-fi novel translated into English. Written by an "electrician" as we call him, but Liu Cixin(刘慈欣) was actually an software engineer, that worked at a power plant.
  18. SMPS-PHYSICS

    Would the upward force be equal to weight of immersed body

    I was just reading about Archimedes principle. Suppose a cylindrical body (attached figure) is immersed in liquid of density d. if the weight of body outside liquid is Fout then can we say that this body will immerse in liquid when released to a depth where upward force F2 = Fout. And then it...
  19. E

    Aerodynamic coefficients of non slender cylindrical body

    hello, I am trying to calculate the location of the center of pressure for a non slender cylinder with a cone shapes nose. Referencing the internet and notes from a aerodynamics course, all the methods are for slender bodies. unfortunately, my body is not slender. I am reluctant to go to CFD...
  20. J

    Gravitating Body Acceleration: Bob vs Jim

    Hey guys, what do you think about this: Let's put a planet in empty space, on the surface of the planet we put a a guy named Bob, Bob's task is to accelerate the planet by pulling on a provided rope. He must extend his arm, grab the rope and bend his arm at maximum force. Bob's identical twin...
  21. VaioZ

    How Does Projectile Motion Affect a Ball Thrown Upward from a Building?

    Homework Statement You throw a ball vertically upward from the roof of a tall building. The ball leaves your hand at a point even with the roof railing with an upward speed of 15.0 m/s; the ball is then in free fall. On its way back down, it just misses the railing. Find (a) the position and...
  22. VaioZ

    Projectile Motion Homework: Solving for Time, Position, and Velocity

    Homework Statement A ball is thrown vertically upward with an initial speed of 19.6 m/s from the top of a building 44.1 m tall. Assuming that there is no air resistance. a.) At what two times is the ball 10.0 m above its starting point? b.) What is the position of the ball at t = 5.00 s? c.)...
  23. T

    How Does the Center of Mass Move in the Two Body Spring Problem?

    Homework Statement Two blocks sitting on a frictionless horizontal surface are connected by a light spring. The natural length of the spring is ##d##, and the spring constant is ##k##. The two objects are initially both at rest, with the spring neither stretched nor compressed. At time ##t =...
  24. T

    Classical Mechanics: Two Body Problem

    Homework Statement Consider two objects with masses ##m_1## and ##m_2## exerting forces on each other with magnitude ##F##. If no other net forces act on the objects, they obey the equations of motion ##m_1\ddot r_1=F##, ##m_2\ddot r_2=-F## Show that the corresponding equations of...
  25. B

    Aerospace Eng. Student Struggling with Blended Wing Body Design

    Hello everyone! I'm a aerospace engineering student. I'm working in my own program for blended wing body aircraft parameterized design. I'm triyed to use Tornado program but it doesn't even allow me to setup the geometry, after introducing the chord the program goes in a bucle and when I stop...
  26. M

    Idea for black body source

    Hi, I am trying to implement a low tech, quick "check" source for our radiation thermometers to ensure they are in good working order between calibrations again a calibrated black body radiation source. My idea was to use an integrating sphere with an incandescent lamp as a source. Then two...
  27. I

    Heat transfer from an air current across a body of water

    Hello, I am looking for the general direction that I need to go to calculate the following: The time-dependent change of temperature of a finite, but continuous, mass of air moving across a water/air boundary. Let's say you have 150 degree F air moving at 0.007m^3/s over a relatively infinite...
  28. Vinci128

    Understanding CP Violation in Two-Body Decay of K Mesons

    Hi everyone, i was reading the article of Cristenson,Cronin,Fitch and Turlay of 1964, the one that discovered CP violation in the system of neutral K mesons. There is one point in it that i don't get it. They say "the angle should be zero for two body decay and is, in general, different from...
  29. U

    Total derivative involving rigid body motion of a surface

    This stems from considering rigid body transformations, but is a general question about total derivatives. Something is probably missing in my understanding here. I had posted this to math.stackexchange, but did not receive any answers and someone suggested this forum might be more suitable. A...
  30. K

    Moving body on an inclined plane

    Homework Statement A body is moving on an inclined plane which has a slope of 30o. When the body is h=1,5m above the surface it has a velocity of vo=3 m/s. At the bottom of the plane it bounces elastically and starts moving upwards. Find the height it reaches, when the coefficient of frictions...
  31. fricke

    Surface bound charge and Body bound charge

    What exactly are surface bound charge and body bound charge? Is there any difference between: 1) surface bound charge and surface charge 2) body bound charge and body charge How do we know if surface and body bound charge exist? Does polarized material always have surface and/or body bound...
  32. praveena

    Which is the maximum speed that our human body can bear?

    The astronauts who were traveling to the space. in what way their health were affected? During the rocket launch the spacecraft should travel greater than the Earth's escape speed. Is this speed affect the astronaut? And tell me which is the maximum speed that our human body can bear?
  33. K

    Classical Practicing Free Body Diagrams & improve problem solving skills

    Hi, I once considered myself enough to be decent enough to solve some problems but lately I'm thinking to revisit and start solving problems again. I would like to know whether there is a book good which has problems (starting from basic to tough ones) for practicing free body diagrams. The book...
  34. B

    Rotation of fluid like a rigid body in a cylindrical contain

    Hello! While studying from the book 'Fluid Mechanics' by Cengel I came across the section which explains the behavior of fluids acting like a rigid body when the cylindrical container which contains the liquid rotates with a uniform angular velocity. Without much explanation the author states...
  35. S

    Kinetics of a rigid body (conservation of energy)

    Homework Statement [/B]Homework Equations [/B] (1) (pink) Is it vertical displacement ? * 4 - 2 (unstretched length of the spring) ? (2) (blue) What does it mean ? * I was thinking that maybe they used The Pythagorean theorem (62+42)=7,2 ≅ 7) but I'm not sure. Besides I don't understand...
  36. V

    Lagrangian of two body problem with spin

    I know how to solve "typical" Kepler problem but I'm interested in a global view to "binary" systems. For example Earth - Moon. If I set lagrangian of system as ##L=\frac{1}{2}(m_1\dot{r}_1^2 + m_2\dot{r}_2^2)-V(|r_2-r_1|)## there isn't included a spin. My questions are: 1) If it is solved as...
  37. B

    Force on a body due to pressure of a fluid

    If I placed a anti-symmetric object in water, and if it floats,is it possible for it to move left or right due to a force imbalance in calculating \int p * \vec{dA} . I know that if the object is a closed surface, we can apply the divergence theorem and because we also know how pressure...
  38. L

    Free body diagram drawing for a two force members on machine

    Homework Statement When a force of 2 lb is applied to the handles of the brad squeezer, it pulls in the smooth rod AB. Determine the force P exerted on each of the smooth brads at C and D Homework Equations ##\sum F_x=0## ##\sum M=0## ##\sum F_y=0## The Attempt at a Solution I drew a free...
  39. Shahab Mirza

    Velocity Related Problem -- A body is thrown upward....

    Homework Statement A body is thrown upward and remains in air for 10 seconds , the initial velocity at which it was thrown in is? The Attempt at a Solution g = -10 , t = 10 s , vf = 0 , vi = ? Vf = vi + gt 0=vi + (-10) (10) Vi = 100 but its answer is not 100 its answer is 50 help me please...
  40. andyrk

    Reason for body to slip away from centre of a rotating disc

    Why does a body kept on a rotating disc tend to slip away from the centre?
  41. L

    How two body decay energy spectrum is discrete?

    it is said that the energy spectrum of two body and three body decay is discrete and continuous respectively.
  42. A

    Applying pressure on a body in ANSYS 15.0

    Hi, Could anyone help me out on how to apply pressure on a portion of a face in ANSYS 15.0, as in like a concentric area within a solid body. Thanks in advance
  43. ChrisVer

    Gravitational Velocity of Mass ##M## at Distance ##d## from Gravitating Body

    Starting from a locked thread I tried to work the gravity of a body of mass ##M## on another body starting from infinity to some distance ##d## from the gravitating body. We have from the SR 2nd Newton law that: \gamma^3 a = \frac{GM}{r^2} writting a= \frac{dv}{dt}= v \frac{dv}{dr} =...
  44. S

    What changes does human body exert when it enters a room ?

    I am making home automation model and I have few sensors installed to sense some changes in the environment to detect any changes. So these sensors provide me data , but I want to know what changes does Human body exerts on the environment it enters, so that I can install those sensors which...
  45. B

    Role of Center of Mass in a spinning body without gravity

    Hi, I'm having a discussion with someone on the plausibility of the physics in a science fiction movie (I know, very efficient use of time!). There's a scene with a space station shaped like a ring. It has a center body that is attached radially to one edge of the ring. This space station is...
  46. almarpa

    Euler equations in rigid body: Taylor VS Kleppner - Kolenkow

    Hello all. After reading both chapters on rigid body motion both in Kleppner - Kolenkow and Taylor books, I still do not undertand the physical meaning of Euler equations. Let me explain: In Kleppner - Kolenkow, they claim (page 321 - 322) that in Euler equations, Γ1, Γ2 and Γ3 are the...
  47. monsteruf

    Free body diagram for all forces

    Homework Statement Two ropes are connected to a steel cable that supports a hanging weight as shown in the figure. Draw a free-body diagram showing all of the forces acting at the knot that connects the two ropes to the steel cable. Draw the force vectors with their tails at the knot. The...
  48. jason lee

    Acceleration of system, connected to a rotational body

    < Mentor Note -- thread moved to HH from the technical physics forums, so no HH Template is shown > I have a problem here. what's the formula for the acceleration of a system wherein. A disk with a cylinder on top of it with a shaft underneath to wound the thread to connect it with a pulley...
  49. M

    Can glycerol do this in the body?

    I'm trying to understand lipid pneumonia. It's been reported that vaping on electronic cigarettes, which contains vegetable glycerine, is the cause of lipid pneumonia. That claim is denied for the reason that vegetable glycerine is not a lipid. It's an alcohol. But glycerol / vegetable...
  50. E

    Free body diagram of a wheel driven by a motor

    Neglecting drag, I'm trying to understand how a wheel driven by a motor on a level surface rolls without sliding and experiences constant velocity. I'm trying to construct a free-body diagram. The wheel has a weight and a normal force acting on it in the vertical directions. The sum of...
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