A ballon filled with helium rises against gravity increasing its potential energy. The speed of the ballon also increases as it rises. How do you reconcile this with the law of conservation of mechanical energy? You can neglect viscous drag of air and assume that density of air is constant.
A ballon filled with helium rises against gravity increasing its potential energy. The speed of the ballon also increases as it rises. How do you reconcile this with the law of conservation of mechanical energy? You can neglect viscous drag of air and assume that density of air is constant.
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V= volume of ballon
density of air
density of helium
V( )g= ma= mdv/dt= upthrust
Integrating with respect to t
V( )gt=mv
½ mv2= ½ m v2/m2 ( )2g2t2
= ½v2/m ( )2g2t2
= if the ballon rises to height h then s= ut +1/2at2
h=1/2at2= ½
so from above equation
1/2mv2= [V( )g][ ]
= V( )gh
So ½ mv2+V gh= hg
KEballon+PEballon= change in PE of air
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