Tuesday, December 13

Section 1:  Read pages 163-166 in your textbook. Answer questions 14-16 on page 166 in your notebook.

Sections 2 & 3: Complete the following problems in your notebook:

n1) What is the radius of the circle in which a 240-kg motorcycle and rider are traveling if they are going 35 m/s and the force exerted on the tires perpendicular to the velocity is 6200 N? 
n2) A ball at the end of a string has a mass of 150 grams. It is traveling at 4.0 meters per second and the string is 65 centimeters long. How great is the tension in the string? 
n3) A 45-kg woman is on a rotating platform in a amusement park, 2.5 meters from the center of rotation. If she is going 4.5 m/s, what frictional force between her body and the platform is needed to keep her from flying off at a tangent?