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General physics - ch. 1: Measurements
Chapter 1: Measurements 1-June 09 P3
An engineering machine has a piston which is going up and down approximately 75 times
per minute.
Describe carefully how a stopwatch may be used to find accurately the time for one up-and-
down cycle of the piston.
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show the wavelengths of a wave. show the crests of a wave.

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option number c is the right answer.

initial speed when it is dropped is 150 ft/s

now at the same moment the acceleration due to gravity is perpendicular to its velocity

so as we know that

now we have centripetal acceleration a = 32 ft/s^2 as its perpendicular to velocity

while tangential acceleration at the same moment will be zero

so

now radius of curvature is given as

so the radius of curvature just after it is dropped is 703.125 ft