Lee Tsue

Literacy Task
For this project our group was tasked with making a space station that orbits the earth,
and spins fast enough to create a pseudo-gravity. It was paramount that we make the station large
enough so that people won't gravitate to the center and get sick. Our Space Stations radius is
70,000 meters. The equation to find rotations per second is
2
a=w r
The letter a in the equation is the speed the station needs to rotate, which is 9.81 m/s. The letter
w is omega, which is the amount of rotations and r is the radius of the station. The equation setup
will look like this
w=
w=0.01184
Now we know that the rotations per second are 0.01184 rotations. One other thing we had to do
is find what the coordinates of the station will be after a set amount of seconds. The first step is
finding what the radians per second are. To do this we multiply omega by 2 .
0.01184 2 =0.0743552