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Dennis Heerlein
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Missing homework template due to originally being posted in other forum.
This is the question:
During a time interval of 5 seconds, an object moves through a half circle with a radius of 10 meters, as shown above. What is the magnitude of the object's velocity during this motion?
Note: I do not know how to post the diagram, but it simply shows a curved arrow going around a half circle, with the object ending exactly across from its starting point.
I solved this using V=2(pi)(r)/Period.
The period of half of a circle is five seconds so the period of a full circle is ten seconds.
So: 2pi(10)/(10 seconds)
I got an answer of 2 pi m/s.
The book says the answer is 4 m/s because the change in displacement is twenty meters (diameter) and the time is five seconds, so d/t=20/5=4 m/s.
Who went wrong?
During a time interval of 5 seconds, an object moves through a half circle with a radius of 10 meters, as shown above. What is the magnitude of the object's velocity during this motion?
Note: I do not know how to post the diagram, but it simply shows a curved arrow going around a half circle, with the object ending exactly across from its starting point.
I solved this using V=2(pi)(r)/Period.
The period of half of a circle is five seconds so the period of a full circle is ten seconds.
So: 2pi(10)/(10 seconds)
I got an answer of 2 pi m/s.
The book says the answer is 4 m/s because the change in displacement is twenty meters (diameter) and the time is five seconds, so d/t=20/5=4 m/s.
Who went wrong?