Question

Hanging from the rear view mirror of your car is a plastic soccer ball. The ball is hanging from a single string. While making a right turn at 45 mph, you notice that the angle the ball and string make from the vertical is precisely 33◦.

(a) Illustrate and fully label the situation described above.

(b) Construct a Free Body Diagram of the soccer ball during the turn.

C) Determine the radius of the circular path of the soccer ball (HINT: its the same as the radius of curvature of the car’s motion).

(d) What is the mechanical force acting as the centripetal force on the following entities? • The soccer ball. • The car. • The driver. Ignore any friction forces acting on the driver.

Answer 1