Essential University Physics: Volume 1 (3rd Edition)
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Author: Richard Wolfson
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Chapter 13, Problem 89PP
Physicians and physiologists are interested in the long-term effects of apparent weightlessness on the human body. Among these effects are redistribution of body fluids to the upper body, loss of muscle tone, and overall mass loss. One method of measuring mass in the apparent weightlessness of an orbiting spacecraft is to strap the astronaut into a chairlike device mounted on springs (Fig. 13.39). This body mass measuring device (BMMD) is set oscillating in simple harmonic
FIGURE 13.39 Astronaut Tamara Jernigan uses a body mass measuring device in the Spacelab Life Sciences Module (Passage Problems 87-90).
motion, and measurement of the oscillation period, along with the known spring constant and mass of the chair itself, then yields the astronaut’s mass. When a 60-kg astronaut is strapped into the 20-kg chair, the time for three oscillation periods is measured to be 6.0 s.
If an astronaut’s mass declines linearly with time while she’s in orbit, the oscillation period of the BMMD will
- a. decrease at an ever-decreasing rate.
- b. decrease linearly with time.
- c. decrease at an ever-increasing rate.
- d. increase linearly with time.
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