Will establish a relationship between force (chap 2) and
acceleration (chap. 3). Rember one of the condition we defined:
SF=0 Equilibrium Condition This time, we will conider what happens when
SF≠0
And this is going to be referred to accelerated motion
Newton’s Second Law of Motion… E.g. Kick a soccer ball: what forces acting, causing what motion? First: accelerates from rest due to your sudden push. Second: velocity continues to change - eventually falls to the ground due to the force of gravity.
The forces acting on the ball are:
1) The push you are giving 2) The force of gravity
Acceleration is created by a net force
SF~a ~ means, “directly proportional to” SF~a The acceleration changes if we change the net force: •If we increase the net force, then the acceleration is also increased
•If we decrease the net force,
then the acceleration is also decreased Mass and Weight • Mass: How much matter an object has. It is also measure of the inertia of the object. Inertia measures resistance to any effort made to change the motion of an object • Weight: The force of gravity acting on the object Weight=(mass)x(gravity)
Often weight and mass are used interchangeably in every-day
life, but in physics, there is a fundamental difference. •In outer space, there is no gravity so everything has zero weight. But, things still have mass. •Shaking an object back and forth gives sense of how massive it is because you sense the inertia of it. Mass and Weight continued
•Mass is an intrinsic property of an object
•Weight does depend on location (less on moon than on earth)
• Units: Standard unit for mass is kilogram, kg. Standard unit for weight is Newton (since it’s a force) (commonly, pound) I’d like to take attendance now. Please enter the last 4 digits of your SSN into your clicker, and click send.. Clicker Question A 10 kg bag of rice weighs one-sixth as much on the moon than on earth because the moon’s gravity is one-sixth as much as the earth’s.
If you tried to slide the bag horizontally across a smooth table
to a friend, is it one-sixth as easier on the moon than on earth? (ignore friction)
A) Yes B) No Clicker Question A 10 kg bag of rice weighs one-sixth as much on the moon than on earth because the moon’s gravity is one-sixth as much as the earth’s.
If you tried to slide the bag horizontally across a smooth table
to a friend, is it one-sixth as easier on the moon than on earth? (ignore friction)
A) Yes B) No No! The same horizontal force is needed, since the mass (inertia) of the bag is the same. Newton’s Second Law of Motion… The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass
The acceleration produces motion
BUT The mass of an object measures the amount of inertia of that object
And inertia is the resistance of changing the state of rest or
uniform motion Therefore The acceleration of the object is directly proportional to the net force (Fnet) (as we saw before) AND inversely propoirtional to the mass of the object a = Fnet m
Often stated as Fnet = ma Newton’s Second Law: Note about direction An object accelerates in the direction of the net force acting on it. • Eg. Drop a ball – it accelerates downward, as force of gravity pulls it down • Eg. We considered last time throwing a ball upward. When the ball is thrown upward, what is the direction of its acceleration (after leaving your hand)?
Acceleration is downward (gravity) – so the ball slows down
as it rises. i.e. when force is opposite to the object’s motion, it will decrease its speed.
• When the force is at right-angles to the object’s motion (eg throw
ball horizontally), the object is deflected. Recall Free-fall: when a = g Recall last time: when the force of gravity is the only force acting on the object (negligible air resistance), then the object is in “free-fall”.
Question Since weight = mg = force of gravity on an object, heavier objects experience more gravitational force – so why don’t they fall faster than lighter ones ? SF=Fg=mg On the other hand we know that SF=ma then it´s clear that ma=mg and since the mass is the same in both sides of the equation a=g So all objects free-fall at the same rate, g. Clicker Question In a vacuum, a coin and feather fall side by side, at the same rate. Is it true to say that, in vacuum, equal forces of gravity act on both the coin and the feather?
A) Yes B) No C)There is no gravity inside vacuum Clicker Question In a vacuum, a coin and feather fall side by side, at the same rate. Is it true to say that, in vacuum, equal forces of gravity act on both the coin and the feather?
A) Yes B) No C)There is no gravity inside vacuum Answer: B NO! They accelerate together because the ratio weight/mass for each are equal (=g). There is a greater force of gravity on the coin, but its mass (inertia) is greater too. Friction • When surfaces slide or tend to slide over one another, a force of friction resists the motion. Due to irregularities (microscopic bumps, points etc) in the surfaces. Friction also occurs with liquids and gases – eg. air drag
Eg. Push a box across a floor, applying a small steady force.
The box may not accelerate because of the force of friction – it may go at constant speed, or slow down, if you get tired and start pushing less. Only if you increase your force so that it is greater than the frictional force, will the box speed up. Friction… • The size of the friction force between solid surfaces does not depend on speed; nor, interestingly, on the area of contact. •It does depend on the object’s weight. • Air drag does depend on contact surface area and speed (more soon). Exactly how friction works is still an active research area today!
• Consider now the box at rest.
- Just sitting there, there is no friction.
- If push it, but not hard enough, so it stays at rest, then
the size of the friction force must exactly equal (cancel) the size of the pushing force. Why? zero acceleration means zero net force Push a bit harder but it still won’t move, the friction increases to exactly oppose it. Called “static friction” since nothing moves.
- There is a max. static friction force between any two
objects, such that if your push is just greater than this, it will slide.
- Then, while it is sliding as you are pushing it, the
friction becomes “sliding friction” or also called “kinetic friction”(which is actually less than the friction that was just built up before it started moving).
- That static friction > sliding friction is important in anti-
lock breaking systems in cars (see your book for more on this) Question The captain of a high-flying airplane announces that the plane is flying at a constant 900 km/h and the thrust of the engines is a constant 80 000 N.
a) What is the acceleration of the airplane?
Zero, because velocity is constant
b) What is the combined force of air resistance that acts all over the plane’s outside surface?
80 000 N. Since, if it were less, the plane would speed up; if it were more, the plane would slow down. Any net force produces an acceleration.
c) Now consider take-off. Neglecting air resistance, calculate the
plane’s acceleration if its mass is 30 000 kg, and the thrust at take- off is 120 000 N. a = F/m = (120 000 N)/(30 000 kg) = 4 m/s2 “Non-Free” Fall: accounting for air resistance A feather and a coin do not fall at the same rate in air because of air resistance, (a.k.a. air drag). Let’s begin with a little demo:
(i) Drop a piece of paper - as it falls, it flutters, moves sideways due to
air resistance.
(ii) Crumple paper into ball – it falls faster, less air resistance because of less surface area (see more shortly)
(iii) Drop book and paper side by side – book falls faster, due to greater weight c.f. air drag
(iv) Place paper on lower surface of book and drop – they fall together.
(v) Place paper on upper surface of book and drop – what happens?? They fall together!! The book “plows through the air” leaving an air resistance free path for paper to follow. More details… • Newton’s Laws still apply: in addition to force of gravity, have force of air drag, R.
• So acceleration = Net Force/mass is less than in vacuum,
since Fnet = weight (down) – air drag (up) = mg – R • R depends on
(i) the frontal area of the falling object – the amount of air the object must “plow” (ii) the speed of the falling object – the faster, the more air molecules encountered each second The drag force is given by
R=(1/2)rv2CDA
where r is the density of the fluid V is the velocity of the object CD drag coefficiente that deponds on the geometry of the object, skin friction and the form of the drag •So the air drag force on an object dropped from rest starts at zero, and then increases as object accelerates downward -- until terminal speed (see shortly)
• Our paper and book demo –
Both had about the same frontal area, but since the weight of the paper < weight of book, the (increasing) air drag soon cancels the downward acting weight, sooner for the paper since it weighs less. Then the net force is zero, R=mg, and it no longer accelerates – it goes at constant terminal speed (or terminal velocity) after this. On the other hand, the book continues to gain speed, until its larger weight equals R, and then it too will go at its terminal speed, higher since it accelerated for longer. • The same idea applies to all objects falling in air e.g. Skydiver, speeds up initially, and so the air drag force R increases, but is still less than the weight. Eventually a speed is reached that R equals the weight, after which no more speed gain –i.e. terminal speed. • Note also that effect of air drag may not be noticeable when dropped from shorter heights, since speeds gained are not as much, so air drag force is small c.f. weight. Eg: Terminal speeds: Skydiver ~ 200 km/h Baseball ~ 150 km/h (or, 95 mi/h) Ping-pong ball ~ 32 km/h (or, 20 mi/h) Feather ~ few cm/s Question: How can a skydiver decrease his terminal speed during fall? Answer: By spreading himself out (increase frontal area) Clicker Question
As she falls faster and faster
through the air, her acceleration
1. increases. 2. decreases. 3. remains the same. As she falls faster and faster through the air, her acceleration
1. increases. 2. decreases. 3. remains the same.
Answer: Acceleration decreases because the net force on her
decreases. Net force is equal to her weight minus her air resistance, and since air resistance increases with increasing speed, net force and hence acceleration decreases. By Newton’s 2nd law, , F (mg − R) a= = net
m m where mg is her weight and R is the air resistance she encounters. As R increases, a decreases. Note that if she falls fast enough so that R = mg, a = 0, then with no acceleration she falls at constant velocity. Eg. Two parachuters, green man heavier than blue man, each with the same size of chute. Let’s ask a series of questions: (1)First ask, if there was no air resistance, who would get to ground first? Both at the same time. (2) They both begin to fall together in the first few moments. For which is the air drag force greater? R depends on area – same for each, and speed – same for each. So initially both experience the same drag force R
(3) Who attains terminal velocity first? i.e. who
stops accelerating first? (4) Who has larger When R becomes equal to the weight, then terminal veloc so who there is zero net force. Since blue’s weight is reaches ground first? less, blue attains terminal velocity first. Green, he reaches his (Note that as they accelerate, R increases, terminal velocity later, after because speed increases but after terminal acc. longer, so is faster… speed reached, R is const.) Clicker Question
Which encounters the greater force of air resistance— 1. A falling elephant, or 2. A falling feather? Which encounters the greater force of air resistance— 1. A falling elephant, or 2. A falling feather?
Answer: the elephant
There is a greater force of air resistance on the falling elephant, which “plows through” more air than the feather in getting to the ground. The elephant encounters several newtons of air resistance, which compared to its huge weight has practically no effect on its rate of fall. Only a small fraction of a newton acts on the feather, but the effect is significant because the feather weighs only a fraction of a newton. The elephant has larger acceleration. Remember to distinguish between a force itself and the effect it produces! Clicker Question
Two smooth balls of
exactly the same size, one made of wood and the other of iron, are dropped from a high building to the ground below. The ball to encounter the greater force of air resistance on the way down is 1. the wooden ball. 2. the iron ball. 3. Neither. The force is the same. Two smooth balls of exactly the same size, one made of wood and the other of iron, are dropped from a high building to the ground below. The ball to encounter the greater force of air resistance on the way down is 1. the wooden ball. 2. the iron ball. 3. Neither. The force is the same.
Answer: the iron ball
Air resistance depends on both the size and speed of a falling object. Both balls have the same size, but the heavier iron ball falls faster through the air and encounters greater air resistance in its fall. Be careful to distinguish between the amount of air drag and the effect of that air drag. If the greater air drag on the faster ball is small compared to the weight of the ball, it won’t be very effective in reducing acceleration. For example, 2 newtons of air drag on a 20-newton ball has less effect on fall than 1 newton of air drag on a 2-newton ball.
