OCR MEI M3 2012 January — Question 2

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleM3 (Mechanics 3)
Year2012
SessionJanuary
TopicCircular Motion 1

2 A light inextensible string of length 5 m has one end attached to a fixed point A and the other end attached to a particle P of mass 0.72 kg . At first, P is moving in a vertical circle with centre A and radius 5 m . When P is at the highest point of the circle it has speed \(10 \mathrm {~ms} ^ { - 1 }\).
  1. Find the tension in the string when the speed of P is \(15 \mathrm {~ms} ^ { - 1 }\). The particle P now moves at constant speed in a horizontal circle with radius 1.4 m and centre at the point C which is 4.8 m vertically below A .
  2. Find the tension in the string.
  3. Find the time taken for P to make one complete revolution. Another light inextensible string, also of length 5 m , now has one end attached to P and the other end attached to the fixed point B which is 9.6 m vertically below A . The particle P then moves with constant speed \(7 \mathrm {~ms} ^ { - 1 }\) in the circle with centre C and radius 1.4 m , as shown in Fig. 2. \begin{figure}[h]
    \includegraphics[alt={},max width=\textwidth]{86d79489-aec1-4c94-bef6-45b007f818a0-3_693_465_1078_817} \captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Fig. 2}
    \end{figure}
  4. Find the tension in the string PA and the tension in the string PB .