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This document provides the details of Problem Set VI assigned on October 9, 2006 for Physics 200a including 10 problems. The problems cover topics like moments of inertia, angular momentum, rotational kinetic energy, static friction, and more. Students are asked to show work and provide numerical answers using given values for mass, length, torque, angular velocity, friction coefficients, and other variables as provided in accompanying figures.

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Problem Set 6 4

This document provides the details of Problem Set VI assigned on October 9, 2006 for Physics 200a including 10 problems. The problems cover topics like moments of inertia, angular momentum, rotational kinetic energy, static friction, and more. Students are asked to show work and provide numerical answers using given values for mass, length, torque, angular velocity, friction coefficients, and other variables as provided in accompanying figures.

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Problem Set VI- Assign October 9, 2006 Due October 16.

Fall 2006 Physics 200a


Figures at the end
R. Shankar

Many problems ask for answers in terms of symbols and not numbers. You may need to
invoke things like g in the answer even if I did not explicitly define them.

1. (i) What is the moment of inertia ICM of a propeller with three blades (treated as
rods) of mass m, length L, at 1200 relative to each other? (ii) If a torque acts on this
how long will it take to reach an angular velocity ? (iii) How many revolutions will
it have made before reaching this ? (iv) Get the numerical answers if L = 1.25m,
m = 12kg, = 3000N m, = 2000rads/s.
2. Consider I for a rectangle of sides a (along the y-axis) and b (along the x-axis ) about
the two symmetry axes. (Rotate the rectangle about one of these axes and think
1
of it as composed o of rods. ) Show that about the axis parallel to x, I = 12 M a2 .
Going back to the very definition of I, show that if this rectangle is spun around
an axis through its CM and perpendicular to its area the moment of inertia will be
1
I = 12 M (a2 + b2 ).
3. A 4.8 kg block is resting at the top of a 30o slope of height 1m. It is attached to a
cylindrical pulley of mass 1.7 kg and radius 8 cm by a massless string that unwinds
as the block slides downhill. If the acceleration of the block is 1.9 m/s2 what is k ?
Find the velocity at the bottom of the slope using forces and torques. Repeat using
energy ideas. See Figure(1).
4. Argue that that A (A B) = 0. In three dimensions find the expression of A B
in terms of vector components and i , j and k.
5. A disk of radius R and mass M is spinning at an angular velocity 0 rad/s. A
non-rotating concentric disk of mass m and radius r drops on it from a negligible

FIG. 1. The block started at the height h.


height and the two rotate together. (See Figure (2). Find the final and fraction of
initial kinetic energy left.
6. A gyro consists of a solid disk of radius R mounted at one end of a shaft of zero mass
and length l, the other end of which is on a pivot. The disk spins at rad/s and
the gyro precesses at p rad/s. What is l in terms of p , , g and R? Give a number
for l when R = 6m, p = 2.6rad/s and the disc is spinning at 450 rpm.
7. Two beads of mass m are free to slide on a rod of length l and mass M as in Figure(3).
Initially the beads are at the center and the rod is spinning freely (with no external
torque) at 0 rad/s about a vertical axis through its center. Slowly the beads move
radially out (at negligible velocity). (i) Find (r), the angular velocity when the
beads are r m from the center. (ii) What is when they just fly tangentially off the
rod? Argue that does not change hereafter. (Hint: Using the formula L = r p
for the angular momentum of beads show that their Ls do not change even though
rs do. Also are there any torques on the spinning rod after the beads detach?) (iii)
Why was the force of friction between beads and rod unimportant in the preceding
discussion?
8. A sphere of radius R is supported by a rope attached to a wall as shown in Figure(4).
The rope makes an angle with respect to the wall. The point where the rope is
attached to the ball is such that if the line of the rope is extended it crosses the
horizontal line through the center of the ball at a distance 3R/2 from the wall. Show
that the minimum s between wall and ball for this to be possible is s = 21 cot .
Evaluate this for = 300 . Hint: Find the right place to take torques. The usual
suspects will not do.
9. A horizontal rod of mass 8 kg and length 2.4m is hinged to a wall and supported by
a cable that makes an angle of 250 as shown in Figure (5). What is the tension T on
the cable and what is the force exerted by the pivot? Repeat if in addition a 25 kg
weight is suspended at the end of the rod.
10. A ladder of length 6m mass 15 kg leans against a wall at angle 30o with respect to
the wall. With respect to the ground it has s = .4. How high can a 70 kg man
climb before the ladder slips?
m r

M R

FIG. 2. The upper disk, initially at rest, falls with negligi-


ble speed on the lower one which is spinning. Their centers
coincide.

FIG. 3. The point-like beads can slide along the rod which
is spinning around a vertical axis through its CM. The beads
start out at the center of the rod.

3R/2

FIG. 4. The rope is attached to the wall at one end and


the ball at the other. If extrapolated, line of rope crosses the
horizontal line via center a distance 3R/2 from wall.

0
2.4m 25
P

FIG. 5. The rope is attached to the wall at one end and


the rod at the other. P is the pivot.

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