You decide to visit Santa Claus at the north pole to put in a good word about your splendid behavior throughout the year. While
there, you notice that the elf Sneezy, when hanging from a rope, produces a tension of 445 N in the rope. If Sneezy hangs from a similar rope while delivering presents at the earth's equator, what will the tension in it be?
The question here is that if sneezy hands from a similar rope while delivering presents at the earth's equator, what will be the tension in the rope be. Here is the solution:The tension on the rope when it is at pole, T= 455 NTo find, the tension, t= mgTo solve for mass, m= t/g. Substituting this we have, m=455/9.8. m=46.43 kgAssume that the downwards acceleration is, a= -46.43 m/s^2.T = mg + maT = (46.43 kg) ( 9.8 m/s^2) - (46.43 kg) (-46.43 m/s^2)T = 455.01 kg-m/s^2 - -2155.74 kg-m/s^2T = 2610.75 kg-m/s^2 = 2610.75 N
The black squirrel has zero kinetic energy (if it's not moving) and lower gravitational potential energy than the red squirrel or zero gravitational potential energy if the ground is assumed to be zero gravitational potential line.
