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CHAPTER 5: Circular Motion; Gravitation Questions 1. Sometimes people say that water is removed from clothes in a spin dryer by centrifugal force throwing the water outward. What is wrong with this statement? 2. Will the acceleration of a car be the same when the car travels around a sharp curve at a constant as when it travels around a gentle curve at the same speed? Explain. 3. Suppose a car moves at constant speed along a hilly road. Where does the car exert the greatest and least forces on the road: (a) at the top of a hill, (b) at a dip between two hills, (c) on a level stretch near the bottom of a hill? 4. Describe all the forces acting on a child riding a horse on a merry-go-round. Which of these forces provides the centripetal acceleration of the child? 5. A bucket of water can be whirled in a vertical circle without the water spilling out, even at the top of the circle when the bucket is upside down. Explain. 6. How many “accelerators” do you have in your car? There are at least three controls in the car which can be used to cause the car to accelerate. What are they? What accelerations do they produce? 7. A child on a sled comes flying over the crest of a small hill, as shown in Fig. 5–31. His sled does not leave the ground (he does not achieve “air”), but he feels the normal force between his chest and the sled decrease as he goes over the hill. Explain this decrease using Newton’s second law. 8. Why do bicycle riders lean inward when rounding a curve at high speed? 9. Why do airplanes bank when they turn? How would you compute the banking angle given its speed and radius of the turn? 10. A girl is whirling a ball on a string around her head in a horizontal plane. She wants to let go at precisely the right time so that the ball will hit a target on the other side of the yard. When should she let go of the string? 11. Does an apple exert a gravitational force on the Earth? If so, how large a force? Consider an apple (a) attached to a tree, and (b) fallin