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Oscillations

1) Tarzan swings on a vine to rescue a 35-kg chimpanzee. The vine is long enough such that Tarzan comes to a stop 4 seconds after starting his swing at a 12 degree angle. With Tarzan and the chimp's combined mass, the swing has a lower frequency and amplitude. 2) A butcher drops a 2.2-kg steak onto a spring-mounted 0.2-kg pan from 0.4m, compressing the spring. This sets the pan and steak into vertical simple harmonic motion with an amplitude determined by the spring's properties and energies involved in the collision. 3) A 8-g rifle bullet embeds in a 0.992-kg block

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Oscillations

1) Tarzan swings on a vine to rescue a 35-kg chimpanzee. The vine is long enough such that Tarzan comes to a stop 4 seconds after starting his swing at a 12 degree angle. With Tarzan and the chimp's combined mass, the swing has a lower frequency and amplitude. 2) A butcher drops a 2.2-kg steak onto a spring-mounted 0.2-kg pan from 0.4m, compressing the spring. This sets the pan and steak into vertical simple harmonic motion with an amplitude determined by the spring's properties and energies involved in the collision. 3) A 8-g rifle bullet embeds in a 0.992-kg block

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PROBLEM SET. Oscillations.

1. Tarzan spies a 35-kg chimpanzee in severe danger, so he swings to the rescue. He adjusts his strong,
but very light, vine so that he will first come to rest 4.0 s after beginning his swing, at which time his vine
makes a 12 angle with the vertical. (a) How long is Tarzans vine, assuming that he swings at the bottom
end of it? (b) What are the frequency and amplitude (in degrees) of Tarzans swing? (c) Just as he passes
through the lowest point in his swing, Tarzan nabs the chimp from the ground and sweeps him out of
the jaws of danger. If Tarzans mass is 65 kg, find the frequency and amplitude (in degrees) of the swing
with Tarzan holding onto the grateful chimp.
2. A spring of negligible mass and force constant k = 400 N/m is hung vertically, and a 0.200-kg pan is
suspended from its lower end. A butcher drops a 2.2-kg steak onto the pan from a height of 0.40 m. The
steak makes a totally inelastic collision with the pan and sets the system into vertical SHM. What are (a)
the speed of the pan and steak immediately after the collision; (b) the amplitude of the subsequent
motion; (c) the period of that motion?
3. A rifle bullet with mass 8.00 g and initial horizontal velocity 280 m s strikes and embeds itself in a
block with mass 0.992 kg that rests on a frictionless surface and is attached to one end of an ideal
spring. The other end of the spring is attached to the wall. The impact compresses the spring a
maximum distance of 18.0 cm. After the impact, the block moves in SHM. Calculate the period of this
motion.

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