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Chapter 13 Gravitation

Chapter 13 Gravitation. Newton’s law of gravitation Any two (or more) massive bodies attract each other Gravitational force (Newton's law of gravitation) Gravitational constant G = 6.67*10 –11 N*m 2 /kg 2 = 6.67*10 –11 m 3 /(kg*s 2 ) – universal constant.

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Chapter 13 Gravitation

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  1. Chapter 13 Gravitation

  2. Newton’s law of gravitation • Any two (or more) massive bodies attract each other • Gravitational force (Newton's law of gravitation) • Gravitational constantG= 6.67*10 –11 N*m2/kg2 = 6.67*10 –11 m3/(kg*s2) – universal constant

  3. Gravitation and the superposition principle • For a group of interacting particles, the net gravitational force on one of the particles is • For a particle interacting with a continuous arrangement of masses (a massive finite object) the sum is replaced with an integral

  4. Chapter 13 Problem 5 Three uniform spheres of mass 2.00 kg, 4.00 kg and 6.00 kg are placed at the corners of a right triangle. Calculate the resultant gravitational force on the 4.00-kg object, assuming the spheres are isolated from the rest of the Universe.

  5. Shell theorem • For a particle interacting with a uniform spherical shell of matter • Result of integration: a uniform spherical shell of matter attracts a particle that is outside the shell as if all the shell's mass were concentrated at its center

  6. Gravity force near the surface of Earth • Earth can be though of as a nest of shells, one within another and each attracting a particle outside the Earth’s surface • Thus Earth behaves like a particle located at the center of Earth with a mass equal to that of Earth • g = 9.8 m/s2 • This formula is derived for stationary Earth of ideal spherical shape and uniform density

  7. Gravity force near the surface of Earth In reality gis not a constant because: Earth is rotating, Earth is approximately an ellipsoid with a non-uniform density

  8. Gravitational field • A gravitational field exists at every point in space • When a particle is placed at a point where there is gravitational field, the particle experiences a force • The field exerts a force on the particle • The gravitational field is defined as: • The gravitational field is the gravitational force experienced by a test particle placed at that point divided by the mass of the test particle

  9. Gravitational field • The presence of the test particle is not necessary for the field to exist • The source particle creates the field • The gravitational field vectors point in the direction of the acceleration a particle would experience if placed in that field • The magnitude is that of the freefall acceleration at that location

  10. Gravitational potential energy • Gravitation is a conservative force (work done by it is path-independent) • For conservative forces (Ch. 8):

  11. Gravitational potential energy • To remove a particle from initial position to infinity • Assuming U∞ = 0

  12. Gravitational potential energy

  13. Escape speed • Accounting for the shape of Earth, projectile motion (Ch. 4) has to be modified:

  14. Escape speed • Escape speed: speed required for a particle to escape from the planet into infinity (and stop there)

  15. Escape speed • If for some astronomical object • Nothing (even light) can escape from the surface of this object – a black hole

  16. Chapter 13 Problem 30 (a) What is the minimum speed, relative to the Sun, necessary for a spacecraft to escape the solar system, if it starts at the Earth’s orbit? (b) Voyager 1 achieved a maximum speed of 125 000 km/h on its way to photograph Jupiter. Beyond what distance from the Sun is this speed sufficient to escape the solar system?

  17. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) Tycho Brahe/ Tyge Ottesen Brahe de Knudstrup (1546-1601) • Kepler’s laws • Three Kepler’s laws • 1. The law of orbits: All planets move in elliptical orbits, with the Sun at one focus • 2. The law of areas: A line that connects the planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in the plane of the planet’s orbit in equal time intervals • 3. The law of periods: The square of the period of any planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of its orbit

  18. First Kepler’s law • Elliptical orbits of planets are described by a semimajor axisa and an eccentricitye • For most planets, the eccentricities are very small (Earth's e is 0.00167)

  19. Second Kepler’s law • For a star-planet system, the total angular momentum is constant (no external torques) • For the elementary area swept by vector

  20. Third Kepler’s law • For a circular orbit and the Newton’s Second law • From the definition of a period • For elliptic orbits

  21. Satellites • For a circular orbit and the Newton’s Second law • Kinetic energy of a satellite • Total mechanical energy of a satellite

  22. Satellites • For an elliptic orbit it can be shown • Orbits with different ebut the same a have the same total mechanical energy

  23. Chapter 13 Problem 26 At the Earth’s surface a projectile is launched straight up at a speed of 10.0 km/s. To what height will it rise? Ignore air resistance and the rotation of the Earth.

  24. Questions?

  25. Answers to the even-numbered problems Chapter 13 Problem 2 2.67 × 10−7 m/s2

  26. Answers to the even-numbered problems Chapter 13 Problem 4 3.00 kg and 2.00 kg

  27. Answers to the even-numbered problems Chapter 13 Problem 10 (a) 7.61 cm/s2 (b) 363 s (c) 3.08 km (d) 28.9 m/s at 72.9° below the horizontal

  28. Answers to the even-numbered problems Chapter 13 Problem 24 (a) −4.77 × 109 J (b) 569 N down (c) 569 N up

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