Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (4th Edition)
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Author: Elizabeth A. Stephan, David R. Bowman, William J. Park, Benjamin L. Sill, Matthew W. Ohland
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Chapter 12, Problem 17RQ
- 17. One of the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering is Engineering the Tools of Scientific Discovery. According to the NAE website: "Grand experiments and missions of exploration always need engineering expertise to design the tools,
instruments, and systems that make it possible to acquire new knowledge about the physical and biological worlds."Solar sails are a means of interplanetary propulsion using the radiation pressure of the sun to accelerate a spacecraft. The following table shows the radiation pressure at the orbits of several planets.
Planet | Distance from Sun (d) [AU] | Radiation Pressure (P) [µPa] |
Mercury | 0.46 | 43.3 |
Venus | 0.72 | 17.7 |
Earth | 1 | 9.15 |
Mars | 1.5 | 3.96 |
Jupiter | 5.2 | 0.34 |
Note
The astronomical unit (AU) is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun.
- a. Plot this data and determine the power law model for radiation pressure as a function of distance from the sun.
- b. What are the units of the exponent in the trendline?
- c. What are the units of the other constant in the trendline?
- d. What is the radiation pressure at Uranus (19.2 AU from sun)?
- e. At what distance from the sun is the radiation pressure 5 µPa?
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