Answer to Question #6228 in Mechanics | Relativity for Stephen

Question #6228
A ball rolls off a frictionless sphere with neglible inital velocity, at what point does the ball fall off?
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Expert's answer
2012-02-02T11:03:52-0500
The forces on the ball include the centripetal force due to gravity, the centrifugal force due to motion along the curve and the resulting normal force
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The gain in kinetic energy as the bug slides is provided by the loss in
potential energy. Since
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we have
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At the moment the ball leaves the ball, the normal force Fn becomes zero. We can now substitute the value of the centrifugal force
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