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Circular Motion Creating Artificial Gravity
Robert Pittman 1/26/2012 Physics

Circular motion creating artificial gravity
Artificial gravity is a must have for any and every space station, if the human is living there for a long period of time. If there isn’t any artificial gravity present then the human body is extremely stunned which forces all the biological functions to break down. Astronauts that are in orbit for a long period of time tend to show major decreases in their bone strength, muscular tone, and also their cardiovascular conditioning. The body usually recovers from the lack of artificial gravity when the force of gravity returns, but it takes a while for the bone decalcification to finally recover. The way to create artificial gravity is through a rotating enclosed cylinder. The cylinder is a circular shape, which makes it become circular motion. When needed, the astronauts’ walk on the inside edges of the cylinder, which diameter is 2235 meters. In order to create artificial gravity the rotation is going at a rate of 0.80 rpm. The radius of the cyndrical shaped chambers hold a ratio of rA/rB=3.95. Each chambers job is to create simulation which is supposed to react in response to gravity which is 10.0 m/s^2. The superconductor is pretty much what controls everything that is going on in the cylinder creating circular motion. While the space ship is in flight the super conductor gravitational peaks are observed once the superconductor notices it is passed its critical temperature. The rotating superconductor creates a magnetic field proportional to the angular velocity. Artificial gravity is defined as “the increase or decrease of apparent gravity particularly in space”. Artificial gravity is “achieved” by the use of other forces such as centrifugal force, fictious force, and also somewhat linear acceleration. Circular motion is what brings all three of those factors together to make artificial gravity. Circular motion is “rotation on a circular path or a

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