Defying Gravity! - 4-sided

This is an extension of this problem .

Now, imagine four surfaces of equal length making a square in a controlled environment, with same parameters (the gravity can be switched to be perpendicular to any of the surfaces). Now, say a ball is dropped from the midpoint of one of the sides of the square, falling in direction perpendicular to the adjacent side of the square. After a certain time period t 1 t_1 , the direction of the acceleration due to gravity is switched in a cyclic manner, to the next adjacent surface. Then, after time t 2 t_2 , the direction is switched in the same fashion. Then after every time period T T , the direction of gravity is changed. The periodic changes occur in such a way that the ball visits the midpoints of all four surfaces. If the surfaces are 1 k m . 1 km. long, and the acceleration due to gravity is 10 m s 2 10 ms^{-2} , find t 2 t 1 \lfloor t_2-t_1\rfloor .

Also, derive the expression for T T , in terms of k k and g g , which are length of surface and acceleration due to gravity respectively.


The answer is 9.

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

0 solutions

No explanations have been posted yet. Check back later!

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...