Gibbons, small asian apes, move by brachiation, swinging below a handhold to move forward to the next handhold. a 8.7 kg gibbon has an arm length (hand to shoulder) of 0.60 m. we can model its motion as that of a point mass swinging at the end of a 0.60-m-long, massless rod. at the lowest point of its swing, the gibbon is moving at 3.7 m/s. what upward force must a branch provide to support the swinging gibbon?

Two kilograms of air within a piston–cylinder assembly executes a carnot power cycle with maximum and minimum temperatures of 800 k and 300 k, respectively. the heat transfer to the air during the isothermal expansion is 60 kj. at the end of the isothermal expansion the volume is 0.4 m3. assume the ideal gas model for the air. determine the thermal efficiency, the volume at the beginning of the isothermal expansion, in m3, and the work during the adiabatic expansion, in kj.