A space elevator consists of a heavy counterweight placed near geostationary orbit, a thread that connects it to the ground (assume this is massless), and elevators that run on the threads (also massless). The mass of the counterweight is 107kg. Mass is continuously delivered to the counterweight at a rate of 0.001kg/s. The elevators move upwards at a rate of 20m/s. Assume there are many elevators, so their discreteness can be neglected. The elevators are massless. The counterweight orbits the Earth.
Find the minimum possible displacement radially of the counterweight. Specify the sign.
Given constants:
- Proton mass, mp=1.67⋅10−27kg
- Neutron mass, mn=1.67⋅10−27kg
- Electron mass, me=9.11⋅10−31kg
- Avogadro's constant, N0=6.02⋅1023mol−1
- Universal gas constant, R=8.31J/(mol⋅K)
- Boltzmann's constant, kB=1.38⋅10−23J/K
- Electron charge magnitude, e=1.60⋅10−19C
- 1 electron volt, 1eV=1.60⋅10−19J
- Speed of light, c=3.00⋅108m/s
- Universal Gravitational constant,
G=6.67⋅10−11(N⋅m2)/kg2
- Solar Mass
M⊙=1.988⋅1030kg
- Acceleration due to gravity, g=9.8m/s2
- 1 unified atomic mass unit,
1u=1.66⋅10−27kg=931MeV/c2
- Planck's constant,
h=6.63⋅10−34J⋅s=4.41⋅10−15eV⋅s
- Permittivity of free space,
ϵ0=8.85⋅10−12C2/(N⋅m2)
- Coulomb's law constant,
k=4πϵ01=8.99⋅109(N⋅m2)/C2
- Permeability of free space,
μ0=4π⋅10−7T⋅m/A
- Magnetic constant,
4πμ0=1⋅10−7(T⋅m)/A
- 1 atmospheric pressure,
1atm=1.01⋅105N/m2=1.01⋅105Pa
- Wien's displacement constant, b=2.9. 10−3m⋅K
- Stefan-Boltzmann constant,
σ=5.67⋅10−8W/m2/K4