Hot air balloon of total mass m (including passengers and luggage) is moving with a downward acceleration of magnitude a. as it approaches a mountain, the captain needs to accelerate upwards. he decides to throw enough ballast over board to achieve an upward acceleration of magnitude a/2. what fraction of the initial mass does he have to drop? assume the upward lift force exerted by the air on the balloon does not change because of the decrease in mass.

In a wind tunnel the speed changes as the cross sectional area of the tunnel changes. if the speed in a 6' x 6' square test section is 100 mph, what was the speed upstream of the test section where the tunnel measured 20' x 20'? use conservation of mass and assume incompressible flow. conservation of mass requires that as the flow moves through a path or a duct the product of the density, velocity and cross sectional area must remain constant; i.e., that ova-constant. a model is being tested in a wind tunnel at a speed of 100 mph if the flow in the test section is at sea level standard conditions, what is the pressure at the model's stagnation point? (a) the tunnel speed is being measured by a pitot-static tube connected to a u- tube manometer. what is the reading on that manometer in inches of water? (b) at one point on the model a pressure of 2058 psf is measured. what is the local airspeed at that point?

An object starts from rest at point f and speeds up continuously as it moves around an oval. a. choose a point about 1/8 th of the way around the oval from point f, and label it point g. draw a vector to represent the velocity of the object at point g. b. determine the change in velocity vector   between points f and g.

James is trying to prove newton's 2nd law of motion. he tries to move four different objects with different masses, shapes, and sizes from point a to point b. the objects are a toy car, a car, a refrigerator, and a kitchen table. after some experimentation, he finds that force is dependent on the mass of the object, rather than it's size or shape. the object that takes the most force to move is the