A spinning donut-shaped space station can create a kind of artificial gravity. One proposed use for such a space station is as a hospital for severely burned individuals. It is very painful for a badly burned person on Earth to lie in bed. In a space station like the one shown above, the effect of gravity can be reduced or even eliminated. How many seconds should each complete rotation of this space hospital take for patients to experience 1/3 of Earth's gravity? The patients would be on the inside surface of the station's outermost wall and the diameter of this donut-shaped hospital is planned to be 0.350 km. Hint: be careful with your units. 42.5 s

A spinning donut-shaped space station can create a kind of artificial gravity. One proposed use for such a space station is as a hospital for severely burned individuals. It is very painful for a badly burned person on Earth to lie in bed. In a space station like the one shown above, the effect of gravity can be reduced or even eliminated. How many seconds should each complete rotation of this space hospital take for patients to experience 1/3 of Earth's gravity? The patients would be on the inside surface of the station's outermost wall and the diameter of this donut-shaped hospital is planned to be 0.350 km. Hint: be careful with your units. 42.5 s

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College Physics

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Chapter7: Rotational Motion And Gravitation

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Problem 2CQ: Suppose an alien civilization has a space station in circular orbit around its home planet. The...

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