This document contains data from three cases analyzing the forces involved when an aircraft lands on an aircraft carrier using an arresting cable. It provides information on the mass and speeds of the plane, ship, and wind for each case. It then calculates the kinetic energy for each combination of forces and shows the increasing force applied to the arresting cable as it is extended further from the ship, as well as the cumulative energy absorbed up to each point on the cable.
This document contains data from three cases analyzing the forces involved when an aircraft lands on an aircraft carrier using an arresting cable. It provides information on the mass and speeds of the plane, ship, and wind for each case. It then calculates the kinetic energy for each combination of forces and shows the increasing force applied to the arresting cable as it is extended further from the ship, as well as the cumulative energy absorbed up to each point on the cable.
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This document contains data from three cases analyzing the forces involved when an aircraft lands on an aircraft carrier using an arresting cable. It provides information on the mass and speeds of the plane, ship, and wind for each case. It then calculates the kinetic energy for each combination of forces and shows the increasing force applied to the arresting cable as it is extended further from the ship, as well as the cumulative energy absorbed up to each point on the cable.
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Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
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Download as XLSX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
This spreadsheet is to calculate the length of the aircraft arrester cable on an
aircraft carrier to successfully stop a landing plane.
To do so we have to calculate the integral of the function f(x)=0.17x^2+20x.
The integral is the area of a region under a curve. By breaking the region into thin vertical slabs we approximate this area. (The thinner the slabs are the more accurate result we get.) To stop the plane the cumulative area, in other words the work done by the cable has to equal or to be more than the kinetic energy of the landing plane. For calculating the kinetic energy (KE=0.5mV^2) we need to consider not only the speed of the plane and the ship but their direction as well as the wind`s. We have to find the value of "x" for which F=5678kNm. Fourth Case ∫0.17x²+20xd(x) = [(17/300)x³+10x²] → (17/300)x³+10x² = 5678 7000.00 145.00 x> 22.444 The true value of "x" is between the two 40.28 x< 22.445 values. 20.00 5.56 15.00 4.17 45.00 2.95 15.00 8328.08 6437.55 4966.21 3533.99