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Lecture Sheet No: 5
Course : Bachelor in Architecture (B.Arch)
Module Title : Physics
Module Code : Phy1105
Semester : 1st & 2nd
Faculty Member/s : Ms. Farzana Alam.
Week : 5th
Number of Class :5
Submission Date : 04.05.2020
Lecture 5
Mechanics
What does your weight depend on?
• Weight (w)
time velocity = mass (m) x acceleration due to gravity (g)
0s 0 m/s • w = m / g = mg
+ 10 m/s
• Units to be used in this formula:
1s 10 m/s – m is in kilograms (kg)
+ 10 m/s Change in
2s 20 m/s velocity, or – g » 10 m/s2
+ 10 m/s acceleration – w is in force units called Newtons (N)
3s 30 m/s »10 m/s/s
+ 10 m/s or, 10 m/s2
4s 40 m/s
5s 50 m/s + 10 m/s 11
» means approximately equal to 12
Discussion:
• One Newton is equal to 0.225 pounds (lb), so in these common units 1000 N = 225 lb
• Often weights are given by the equivalent mass in kilograms. We would say that a 225 lb
man “weighs” 100 kg; this is commonly done but, it is technically incorrect.
The Acceleration Due to Gravity. — When an object falls to earth it is acted on by two forces:
gravity and a drag force (air resistance) due to the air molecules hitting it. For objects that fall to
earth from a distance of several feet or meters, the effect of air resistance can usually be neglected.
To simplify the discussion of gravity, we will just ignore air resistance for now. When an object is
dropped it falls to the ground—this is what is called free fall. Acceleration means increase in
velocity and it is a measure of the rate at which the velocity increases – it is the amount of change
in velocity divided by the time interval over which the change occurs. In mathematical terms we
write for the acceleration a:
Δv is read “delta v” and means the change in velocity, and Δt read “delta t” is the time interval.
This is just the usual meaning of acceleration – when your car accelerates, its speed increases; you
push down on the accelerator to go faster.
Note that an object that moves with a constant speed has an acceleration of zero. Since the speed
increases 10 m/s each second, the acceleration is 10 m/s/s = 10 m/s 2. This important parameter is
called the acceleration due to gravity and is given the special symbol g, so that
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problems from the link below:
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