Question

A diver on a diving board is undergoing simple harmonic motion. Her mass is 46.0 kg and the period of her motion is 0.950 s. The next diver is a male whose period of simple harmonic oscillation is 1.15 s. What is his mass (in kg) if the mass of the board is negligible?

Answer 1

Given is:-

mı = 46kg, T1 = 0.950s

and

T = 1.155

Now,

we know that the time period in SHM is given by

T = 20

and the ration of time periods is given by

12_1 (三m

by plugging all the values we get

,0.950s 2 46kg 1.15s m2

which gives us

m2 = 67.4072kg

This is the mass of the male diver.