A bucket of water of mass 14.4kg is suspended by a rope wrapped around a windlass, that is a solid cylinder with diameter 0.320m with mass 11.1kg . The cylinder pivots on a frictionless axle through its center. The bucket is released from rest at the top of a well and falls a distance 10.2m to the water. You can ignore the weight of the rope.

What is the tension in the rope while the bucket is falling?

With what speed does the bucket strike the water?

Question

A bucket of water of mass 14.4kg is suspended by a rope wrapped around a windlass, that is a solid cylinder with diameter 0.320m with mass 11.1kg . The cylinder pivots on a frictionless axle through its center. The bucket is released from rest at the top of a well and falls a distance 10.2m to the water. You can ignore the weight of the rope.

What is the tension in the rope while the bucket is falling?


With what speed does the bucket strike the water?

anonymous · Answer

What is the time of fall?
Take the free fall acceleration to be g = 9.80m/s^2 .

ghazi · Answer

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