Jack and Jill |
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Well, they probably need to fetch many pails of water in this problem. The problem is to determine how long it will take Jack and Jill to fetch a specified volume of water.
Jack and Jill require UP seconds (always greater than one) to travel
from the bottom of the hill to the top, where the well is located. The well
is a circular cylinder with a diameter of D inches, and before any
water is removed, the water level is L inches below its top.
The single bucket, with a capacity of B cubic feet, when dropped into
the well (with a rope attached, of course) accelerates at 32.2 feet per
second per second (due to gravity). The bucket is pulled up at a rate
of P inches per second. It requires DOWN seconds to carry the
bucket to the bottom of the hill and empty it.
Jack and Jill begin at the bottom of the hill. They both immediately go
to the top of the hill, where Jill fetches water from the well: dropping
the bucket (which we assume will immediately fill completely when it
reaches the water), pulling it up, and passing it to Jack (instantaneously).
Assume the water level in the well drops only after the bucket is lifted.
Jack then carries the bucket down the hill, empties it (instantaneously), goes
back up the hill, and gives the bucket to Jill (instantaneously). This process repeats
until the required volume of water (V cubic feet) has been carried
to the bottom of the hill.
The problem, again, is to determine how long it takes Jack and Jill to accomplish their task.
A line containing a single value less than one appears following the data for the last scenario.
20.0 36.0 72.0 2.0 10.0 18.0 10.0 25.0 72.0 200.0 1.5 8.0 30.0 20.0 0.0
Scenario 1: up hill 20.00 sec well diameter 36.00 in water level 72.00 in bucket volume 2.00 cu ft bucket ascent rate 10.00 in/sec down hill 18.00 sec required volume 10.00 cu ft TIME REQUIRED 232.59 sec Scenario 2: up hill 25.00 sec well diameter 72.00 in water level 200.00 in bucket volume 1.50 cu ft bucket ascent rate 8.00 in/sec down hill 30.00 sec required volume 20.00 cu ft TIME REQUIRED 1141.63 sec