Saturday, January 14, 2012

At what angle would you have to tilt an air table to simulate motion on the moon's surface?

At what angle would you have to tilt an air table to simulate motion on the moon's surface? The Gravity on the moon is g = 1.6 m/s/s.



The answer is apparently 9.51 degrees, but I have no idea how they got to that answer. At what angle would you have to tilt an air table to simulate motion on the moon's surface?Its a trainge of forces job



If the table were horizontal, it would simulate no gravity, if it were vertical it would be 9.8 (ie g (earth))



By drawing a diagram with triangles on it you can see that g (simulated) = sin(angle) * g(earth)



so sin(angle) = g(simulated)/g(earth) = 1.63/9.8



pressing the appropraie button sequence on a calculator gives you your answer. of 9.515 degreesAt what angle would you have to tilt an air table to simulate motion on the moon's surface?Could you specify what exactly an air table is?

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