Circular motion and apparent weight

A Ferris Wheel rotates - what is your apparent weight at the top and bottom of the circular motion?

[chonkyraccoon]

Great video! Explained everything simply and clearly. Keep it up!

[mathematicism]

I get the working, but inserting the values gives me different answers..

[HeirPlain]

Acceleration changes based on the distance of the mass from the center of rotation. It's not the same movement, albeit I would prefer hip fire in a cqb situation.

[whhy]

Thats great everything is clear now ... Thank you sir

[gerakore]

been drawing FBD's for 2 days now. at the top Fc and Fg both point down i am amusing there is a Fn also pointing down. then there is supposed to be an opposing force which i assumed to be Ma but that doesnt seem to work out with the value i worked out for it. we did it with Fc= -mg +/- Fn = (mv^2)/r but on the top considering Fn is positive and solving for Fn you get Fg + Fc but im pretty sure its supposed to be mg - Fc

[gerakore]

ok i finally figured it out. in Fnet=ma at the top ma is negative since it points toward the center and at the top its positive. jeez that was causing way more confusion than it should have

[diegomercier]

I get N=252 N for the top case, N=720 N for the bottom. Weight = 686 N

[Solr_Storm]

@5:38, why are you not multiplying 70kg by 9.8? Also, why are you not multiplying your 70kg mass by v^2? Why do you write the last step as just instead of

[noahmckay]

Thanks so much, really helped.

Edit: Spelling mistakes

Edit: Thanks so much for three likes

[stefysanchez]

what if we dont know mass of the object?