When i was in elementry school the gym teacher had this big long rope with a ball at the end in class and the teacher would spin the ball around on the floor and whenever the ball come to us we had to jump anyway.
A) What was the direction of the force that acted on the ball?
What is the force called?
What provides this force? where does it come from
d if the rope broke what would the ball do why?
a/ the direction of theforce holdingthe ball at the end of the rope is toward the center. The force in the rope is called tension, and the tension is supplying the centriptal force causing the ball to change directions.
b. the ballwould go in a straight line from the point where it was when the rope broke
A) The direction of the force that acted on the ball in this scenario was towards the center of the circular path in which the ball was rotating. This force is called centripetal force.
B) The centripetal force is provided by the tension in the rope, which keeps the ball moving in a circular path. The tension in the rope originates from the muscular effort applied by the gym teacher, who creates the force by continuously spinning the ball.
C) If the rope were to break while the ball is in motion, the ball would move tangentially in a straight line. This happens because once the centripetal force provided by the tension in the rope is removed, there is no longer any force keeping the ball in its circular path. As a result, the ball would continue moving in a straight line with the same velocity it had at the moment the rope broke.