What rotation period will provide normal gravity
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Updated on: 06/25/2020 05:33 PM Due on: 07/01/2020
Despite what you see in science fiction movies, we don't know how to make artificial gravity. However, we can make something that seems like gravity if we work in a rotating reference frame. Suppose NASA builds a space station as a 1000-m-diameter cylinderthat rotates about its axis. The inside surface is the deck of thespace station, so that people stand on the inside surface of the cylinder. As they move on the rotating cylinder, its floor willpush against their feet providing the centripetal force they need to move in a circle.
What rotation period will provide "normal" gravity?
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