Homework Statement
A fully loaded freight elevator has a cab with a total mass of 1490 kg, which is required to travel upward 58
m in 2.1 minutes, starting and ending at rest. The elevator's counterweight has a mass of only 985 kg, so the
elevator motor must help. What average power is...
Homework Statement
Aluminum, which has a mass of 2.7 grams for each cubic centimeter of volume, can be rolled into thin sheets
which your grandparents probably called "tinfoil." If a lump of aluminum of mass 0.75 kg is rolled into such a
sheet 18 μm thick and 25 cm wide, approximately how...
Homework Statement
A regulation NCAA basketball is a sphere of radius approximately 12 cm. Grains of Texas beach sand are
approximately spheres of radius 25 μm. If the inside volume of a basketball were completely filled with sand
(assume perfect packing with no empty space) what is the...