text: # Torque and Angular Momentum
  
  1. Aug 28, 2007
  
  ### usnberry
  
  1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data
  A 22,500N elevator is to be accelerated upward by connecting to it a counterweight using a light cable passing over a solid uniform disk-shaped pulley. There is no appreciable friction at the axle of the pulley, but its mass is 875kg and it is 1.50 m in diameter. (a) How heavy should the counterweight be so that it will accelerate the elevator upward through 6.75 m in the first 3.00 s, starting from rest? (b) Under these conditions, what is the tension in the cable on each side of the pulley?
  
  2. Relevant equations
  I=1/2*875*.75$$^{2}$$=246.1 kg*m$$^{2}$$
  a=(2*6.75)/(3$$^{2}$$)=1.5m/s$$^{2}$$ from x=(x$$_{i}$$)+(.5)(a)(t$$^{2}$$)
  $$alpha$$ = a/r = 2 rad/s^2 from a = R * $$alpha$$
  $$\Sigma$$$$\tau$$=I*a
  
  3. The attempt at a solution
  
  So I get from this is that for the elevator to rise the 6.75 feet in 3.00 seconds the total torque must be 492.2 N*m.
  
  T$$_{1}$$=m$$_{elev}$$*g-m$$_{elev}$$*a
  T$$_{2}$$=m$$_{counter}$$*g+m$$_{counter}$$*a
  
  From this I get T$$_{1}$$ = 19056 N
  
  $$\Sigma$$$$\tau$$ = T$$_{1}$$*r-T$$_{2}$$*r
  
  So...
  
  T$$_{2}$$ = 18400 N
  
  So should be...
  m$$_{counter}$$ = 1628 kg * 9.8 = 1.6*10^4 N
  
  Unfortunately, according to the book I am wrong on all three counts, the tensions and the mass. The answers are supposed to be 3.16*10^4 N mass counter, 2.60 * 10^4N Tension 1 and 2.67 * 10^4N for Tension 2.
  
  Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
  
  2. Aug 28, 2007
  
  ### learningphysics
  
  The directions for your forces are wrong I think... the elevator is accelerating upward, so what's the sum of the forces in the vertical direction for the elevator?
  
  Remember that a is upward for the elevator.
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