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Homework Statement
Your favourite physics teacher who is late for class attempts to swing from the roof of a 24-m high building to the bottom of an identical building using a 24m rope as shown in Figure 5. She starts from rest with the rope horizontal, but the rope will break if the tension force in it is twice the weight of the teacher. How high is the swinging physicist above level when the rope breaks? (Hint: Apply the law of conservation of energy.)
Figure 5:
Homework Equations
[tex]F_c = \frac{mv^{2}}{r}[/tex]
The Attempt at a Solution
[tex]mgh_1 + \frac{mv^{2}}{r}_1 = 2mgh_2 + \frac{mv^{2}}{r}_2 [/tex] Since the questions states that when tension force is twice the weight of the mass, then the rope will break. That's why I put the 2 infront of m. Then I crossed out the m's and you get.
[tex]gh_1 + \frac{v^{2}}{r}_1 = 2gh_2 + \frac{mv^{2}}{r}_2[/tex]
[tex](9.8)(24) + 0 = 2(9.8)h + \frac{v^{2}}{r} [/tex]
[tex]235.2 = 19.6h + \frac{v^{2}}{r} [/tex]
I don't really know what to do next.
The answer in the back of the book is 8.0m
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