As humanity ventures into the vastness of space, scientists have proposed the idea of creating artificial gravity on space stations by means of rotation. To test this idea, a team of engineers has designed a massive cylindrical space station with a diameter of 1200 m that rotates about its axis. Determine, what period rotation will provide a gravitational force equivalent to Earth's gravity.
Astronauts in space are apparently weightless. Weightlessness has many challenges because objects float in space. Objects cannot be placed down and movements are difficult. You decide to introduce artificial gravity in space from spinning. To do so, you attach a ring to the International Space Station and set it to spin about its center. How many revolutions per minute must the ISS (with a 109 m diameter ring attached to it) make about its center to produce artificial gravity equal to Earth's gravity at the surface of the ring?
An innovative planetary ring system is designed to encircle Mars to create a habitat that simulates Earth-like gravity conditions through its rotation. This system is placed at 2.00×105 km from the center of Mars. Given that Mars has a mass of 6.42×1023 kg, calculate the ring system's rotation period, T, in hours. (Let G=6.67×10−11kg2N m2)