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"Skier on hemispherical slope" problems
Greetings--I'm stuck on a mechanics question: Suppose you had a skier at the top of a hemispherical ski slope. S/He has some initial velocity. What is the maximum such velocity such that the skier maintains contact with the ski slope?
Similarly, how would I approach this if the cross section of the slope were not a semi-circle, but instead a cosine, or some other shape?
Thanks very much,
Flip
Greetings--I'm stuck on a mechanics question: Suppose you had a skier at the top of a hemispherical ski slope. S/He has some initial velocity. What is the maximum such velocity such that the skier maintains contact with the ski slope?
Similarly, how would I approach this if the cross section of the slope were not a semi-circle, but instead a cosine, or some other shape?
Thanks very much,
Flip