Author Question: A 2.00 m-long 6.00 kg ladder pivoted at the top hangs down from a platform at the circus. A 42.0 kg ... (Read 84 times)

drink · **on:** Jul 28, 2018

A 2.00 m-long 6.00 kg ladder pivoted at the top hangs down from a platform at the circus. A 42.0 kg trapeze artist climbs to a point where her center of mass is at the center of the ladder and swings at the system's natural frequency. The angular frequency (in s-1) of the system of ladder and woman is
a. 1.01.
b. 3.07.
c. 4.03.
d. 8.05.
e. 16.2.

Question 2

In an inertia balance, a body supported against gravity executes simple harmonic oscillations in a horizontal plane under the action of a set of springs. If a 1.00 kg body vibrates at 1.00 Hz, a 2.00 kg body will vibrate at
a. 0.500 Hz.
b. 0.707 Hz.
c. 1.00 Hz.
d. 1.41 Hz.
e. 2.00 Hz.