Rodney and Tori are Swingers!
Transcript of Rodney and Tori are Swingers!
Pivot.Rodney and Tori are Swingers!
Our new friend Tori the ocelot is ziptied to one end of our old friend Rodney Rodman. The combination is then nailed to a wall and set into oscillatory motion. Rodney's mass is a uniformly distributed 10 kg, and Tori can be idealized as a point mass of 20 kg.
If the amplitude of the resulting motion is small, and observed to have a frequency of .2 Hz, how long is Rodney?
* No ocelots were injured in the making of this story problem.
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3.5 In a successful attempt at the classic monkey hunter demonstration Mr. Toast is shot through the left eye with a dart from the blow gun and stuck to the bulletin board. He swings slowly back and forth through a small angle exhibiting, to a good approximation, simple harmonic motion. Mr.Toast can be considered a rectangular uniform solid. His mass is .25 kg his height is .15 m and his width is .10 m and the center of his left eye is .03 m from both the top edge and the left edge of his crust. Calculate the period of his oscillation.