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Notes 1 The centripetal force required to keep a body in circular orbit is mv2/r, as we found in the dimensional analysis on page 11. The velocity of the body is 2nr/T where T is the period, the time taken for one orbit. So, mV2 m4n2r F,=ma=--- - T2 4n2r and a = - Y T2 ' Kepler's Third Law states that the square of the period is proportional to the cube of the mean distance, so Similarly, given the inverse square law, you can infer Kepler's third law of planetary motion, that r3 cc T2. 2 Work is a weight multiplied by the distance moved in the direction of a force. So if you drop a mass m from a height h above the ground, its velocity on impact is v = gt. Draw a graph now of v against t, and you have a triangle (you don't need to put numbers to the graph) the area of which is the distance fallen. Thus the distance fallen is The potential energy before dropping is converted to kinetic energy on impact (ignoring friction) so Ep = force x height = mg x igt2 = imgZt2 = LmU2 2 = E k . 3 If you take the Earth's radius as the unit of distance, then, as stated in the text, the attraction of the Moon is roughly proportional to 1/602 at the Earth's centre, 1159~ at the sublunar point, and 1/612 at the antipode. If x is the number of Earth's radii between the centre of the Earth and the centre of the Moon, the force at the sublunar point is proportional to l/(x- at the centre of the Earth, to 1/x2; and at the antipode, to l/(x+ I ) ~ Two . approximations are used. (x - 1)2 = x2 -2x+ 1 Copyright 2002 by Richard E. Chapman
Notes 141 and since x is very large relative to 1,x2 - 2x + 1 is very nearly equal to x2 - 2x which is equal to x2[1 - (2/x)]. The second approximation is that (1 - a)-' is very nearly equal to (1 +a). This will be demonstrated below. So, the difference between the force at the sublunar point and the force at the centre of the Earth is proportional to Similarly, the difference between the forces at the antipode and at the Earth's centre is proportional to -2/x3. The second approximation can be demonstrated as follows: Set up an equation: 1/(1 - a) = 1 + b. So, If a and b are small relative to 1, the product ab can be neglected, and a is very nearly equal to b, and 1/(1 - a) is very nearly equal to 1 +a. The approximation is also the first two terms of the binomial expansion (1 - a)-' = 1 + a + a2 + . . . for a2 < 1, in this case, very much less than one. Returning to the quantities in the text, the Earth's radius RE and the distance to the moon dM, and the difference is 4 Let the velocities of two parallel wave-trains travelling in the same direction in deep water differ by dV, and their wavelengths by dh - the faster waves having the longer wavelength. Each time the faster, longer wave passes the shorter and slower by dh, the coincidence of waves will fall back by one wavelength in the time dX/dV. So the group velocity will be V - h(dv/dh). In deep water, V = (g~/2n)1/2, and h(dV/dh) = (h/2)(g/2nh)'/2 = i(g~/2n)'/2 = V/2. See, for example, Tricker (1984) for a fuller discussion of water waves, and John (1984) for their motion. 5 The meaning of the term degrees of freedom is only superficially simple. In the matter of correlation, any two points will lie on a straight line. Even two points on the circumference of a circle will lie on a straight line, but not three. Two points provide no information about the relationship between the two. If you have ten paired measurements and you wish to assess their degree of correlation, any test of significance must be carried out for (10 - 2) degrees of freedom. More generally, if there are n pairs, there are (n - 2) degrees of freedom in regression analysis. If you make 10 independent measurements of, for example, the ages and heights of some students in a school, then there are 10 degrees of freedom. But if you continue the measurements until you have 1000, and record the numbers within Copyright 2002 by Richard E. Chapman
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