A pile driver lifts a 450 kg weight and then lets it fall onto the end of a steel pipe that needs to be driven into the ground. A fall of 1.5 m drives the pipe in 45 cm.

What is the average force exerted on the pipe?

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Izayah Gould

13 September, 19:33

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Ciara Pace · Answer 1

The gravitational potential energy becomes work driving the pipe

m g h = f d

450 * g * 1.5 = f *.45

A pile driver lifts a 450 kg weight and then lets it fall onto the end of a steel pipe that needs to be driven into the ground. A fall of 1.5 m drives the pipe in 45 cm.What is the average force exerted on the pipe?