Question
Each of the space shuttle’s main engines is fed liquid hydrogen by a high-pressure pump. Turbine blades inside the pump rotate at 617 rev/s. A point on one of the blades traces out a circle with a radius of 0.020 m as the blade rotates.
(a) What is the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration that the blade must sustain at this point?
(b) Express this acceleration as a multiple of g = 9.80 m/s^2
Please post the steps you did to solve it too, thanks!
(a) What is the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration that the blade must sustain at this point?
(b) Express this acceleration as a multiple of g = 9.80 m/s^2
Please post the steps you did to solve it too, thanks!
Answers
bobpursley
centripetal acceleration= w^2 r
change rev/sec to rad/sec
change rev/sec to rad/sec