1. A pendulum is formed by taking a 1.0 kg mass and hanging it from the...

1. A pendulum is formed by taking a 1.0 kg mass and hanging it from the ceiling using a steel wire with a diameter of 1.1 mm. It is observed that the wire stretches by 0.05 mm under the weight of the mass. What is the period of oscillation of the pendulum?

2. In order to study the long-term effects of weightlessness, astronauts in space must be weighed (or at least "massed"). One way in which this is done is to seat them in a chair of known mass attached to a spring of known force constant and measure the period of the oscillations of this system. The 34.8 kg chair alone oscillates with a period of 1.45 s , and the period with the astronaut sitting in the chair is 2.25 s .

a.) Find the force constant of the spring.

b.) Find the mass of the astronaut.

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Expert Solution

1) 1.977s

b) Mass of astronaut, M= 48.94Kg

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