Thursday 3 April 2014

Lift example - Gloria, Alicia, Yong Hoe, Jun yang, Boon Jian





Lift example- priscilla, qian ning, yelun, jiahe





Lift example- Han Kang, Jason, Ryan, Joanna

Due to time constraints, we could only do part a and b.

PART A and B respectively:



Lift Example

Questions a and b are incorrect as we did not include the force exerted by the cables to make the velocity constant (acceleration=0ms^-2). We were in the midst of a heated discussion over c and d as our original results contradicted with the fact that when the lift is moving downwards (for c), we feel as if we are "floating" so our weight is supposed to be lesser and vice versa (for d).

Lift example


We only did question one and two! So sorry we didn't have time to do part c!

Done by: Kow Ningzhe, Sandy Lee, Geraldine Tan, Benjamin Chun 

Lift examples part a, b & c: Charissa, Kaining, Fangci, Joe

For a & b, ignore the free body diagram for at the start since the scenario starts from when it is already moving.

For every part, take upwards as positive, m=20.0kg, acceleration due to gravity = -10ms^-2, F refers to the weight of the person and the dot in the free body diagram represents the whole lift. For both FBDs of parts a & b, F1 refers to the force exerted by the cable, and F2 represents the weight of the whole lift including the person and the weighing scale.

We have not done part d yet.

part a:















part b:














part c: