Cody's Awesome Balloons -2

Cody (colored Yellow head) wants to fly up in the sky, so he has tied infinite hot air balloons to each other as shown in the right part of the image (Yeah, he can do that, infinite balloons ) .

The largest balloon is providing him an upward force of 1000 1000 N. The balloon just above that largest balloon is providing an additional force of 100 100 N. The third provides 10 10 N, and so on.

If Cody weighs 54.4 54.4 kg, find with how much acceleration he is going up in the sky.

Details and assumptions :-

\bullet 54.4 54.4 kg is Cody's mass.

\bullet Acceleration due to gravity g = 10 m / s 2 g=10 m/s^2

\bullet Cody is so awesome that he made balloons of really negligible mass.


This problem is a part of the set Cody Mechanics


The answer is 10.424836601307188.

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4 solutions

Aditya Raut
Sep 1, 2014

\bullet Total upward force is k = 3 1 0 k = 1000 + 100 + 10 + 1 + 0.1 + . . . = 1111. 1 N \displaystyle \sum_{k=-3} ^\infty 10^{-k} =1000+100+10+1+0.1+... =1111.\overline{1}N .

\bullet As balloons are massless, there is only 1 force acting downwards and it is weight of Cody, which is 54.4 × g 54.4\times g .

So the net force acting is ( 1111. 54.4 × g ) N (1111.\ - 54.4\times g)N is upward direction.


\bullet Acceleration is given by F = m a a = F m = 1111. 1 54.4 × g 54.4 m / s 2 a = ( 1111. 1 54.4 g ) m / s 2 \overline{F}=m\overline{a}\implies \overline{a}=\dfrac{\overline{F}}{m} = \dfrac{1111.\overline{1} -54.4\times g}{54.4} m/s^2\\ \therefore \overline{a} = \Bigl( \dfrac{1111.\overline{1}}{54.4} -g \Bigr) m/s^2 in upward direction.

a 20.424836601307188 10 10.425 m / s 2 a\approx 20.424836601307188 - 10 \approx \boxed{10.425} m/s^2

Abhi Nandan
Oct 23, 2014

downward force is

f=mg = 54.4 (10) =544 N

upward force is

f1=1111.11 N

{use sum to infinite terms of an GP}

now ,

f1 - f

=1111.11-544

=567.11

WKT,

g= F/m

=567.11/54.4

= 10.425

It should be decreasing GP bro or else your answer makes no sense

sanshodhan shende - 6 years, 6 months ago
Aman Sharma
Sep 1, 2014

You and cody both are awsome really

haha LOL, but is that a solution ! That could have been a comment ! ;)

Aditya Raut - 6 years, 9 months ago

This solution gets 10/10 points

Cody Johnson - 6 years, 9 months ago

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I believe 100/10 for saying that CJ is awesome....

Aditya Raut - 6 years, 9 months ago

ha right @Aditya Raut and @aditya raut are the best

Mardokay Mosazghi - 6 years, 7 months ago

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A troll problem, isn't this one (And even trolling is the 1st part of it) :P

Aditya Raut - 6 years, 7 months ago

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yeah i messed my solving, @Aditya Raut when is Jomo starting

Mardokay Mosazghi - 6 years, 7 months ago

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@Mardokay Mosazghi Has already started yesterday. link to the website

Aditya Raut - 6 years, 7 months ago

Ans should be 10.42

Pradip Salunkhe - 6 years, 9 months ago

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Brilliant asks for 3 3 decimal places.

Aditya Raut - 6 years, 9 months ago
Tarun Kumar
Oct 26, 2014

this question was easy..as it's former part...but when i was entering the answer(10.5) the connection became slow, and i came out, only to later put this answer in part-1....-_-(f * *d). But anyway this part was right. It can be found as total acceleration=(1111.11111....-544)/544=10.4 or 10.5 something

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