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Problemsets Rotational Motion

This document contains 8 practice problems about angular kinematics concepts like angular displacement, angular speed, angular acceleration, tangential speed, centripetal acceleration, and torque. It provides context for each problem and asks the reader to show their work and box their final answers when solving. The problems cover a range of real world scenarios involving ruins, trees, steam engines, planetariums, and more.

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Problemsets Rotational Motion

This document contains 8 practice problems about angular kinematics concepts like angular displacement, angular speed, angular acceleration, tangential speed, centripetal acceleration, and torque. It provides context for each problem and asks the reader to show their work and box their final answers when solving. The problems cover a range of real world scenarios involving ruins, trees, steam engines, planetariums, and more.

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ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE
1.1At Tivoli, Italy, a circular ruin stands on the grounds of the emperor
Hadrian’s villa. A tourist walks 24.0 m counterclockwise along the
edge of the ruin. If the ruin’s radius is 3.50 m, what is the tourist’s
angular displacement?
1.2In terms of volume, the largest tree is the General Sherman at Sequoia
National Park in California. Assuming the tree is perfectly circular, its
radius at the base is 5.55 m. If you were allowed to walk 31.3 m
counterclockwise along the side of the tree, what would your angular
displacement be?

ANGULAR SPEED
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE
2.1The largest steam engine ever built was
constructed in 1849. The engine had one huge
cylinder with a radius of 1.82 m. If a beetle were
to run around the edge of the cylinder with an
average angular speed of 1.00 × 10–1 rad/s, what
would its angular displacement be after 60.0 s?
What arc length would it have moved through?

2.2The world’s largest planetarium dome is 30 m in


diameter. What would your angular displacement
be if you ran around the perimeter of this dome
for 120 s with an average angular speed of 0.40
rad/s?
ANGULAR ACCELERATION
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE
3.1Peter Rosendahl of Sweden rode a unicycle with a wheel
diameter of 2.5 cm. If the wheel’s average angular
acceleration was 2.0 rad/s2, how long would it take for the
wheel’s angular speed to increase from 0 rad/s to 9.4 rad/s?

3.2Jupiter has the shortest day of all of the solar system’s


planets. One rotation of Jupiter occurs in 9.83 h. If an
average angular acceleration of –3.0 × 10–8 rad/s2 slows
Jupiter’s rotation, how long does it take for Jupiter to stop
rotating?

ANGULAR KINEMATICS
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE
4.1A model airplane is kept in a circular path by means of a control line.
The airplane starts at rest and reaches an angular speed of 3.33 rad/s
after a constant angular acceleration of 0.183 rad/s2. How long does it
take the airplane to reach its final angular speed?

4.2A millstone is a large stone wheel once used to grind grain for flour.
Suppose a stone in a windmill is moved from rest with a constant
angular acceleration of 0.13 rad/s2. How long does it take the millstone
to move through an angular displacement of 1.6 rad?

4.3 A ceiling fan’s angular speed increases from 5.2 rad/s to 20.9 rad/s.
During this constant angular acceleration, the fan moves through an
angular displacement of 216 rad. How long does it take the fan to reach
its final angular speed?
4.4 A runner on a circular track increases his angular speed from 0.111
rad/s to 0.178 rad/s. If the runner’s angular acceleration is 1.1 × 10–2
rad/s2, what is his angular displacement?

4.5 Even rarer than phonograph turntables for long-playing (LP) records
are those turntables used in the first half of the twentieth century.
Unlike the LP turntables, which rotated at 33.3 rev/min, these older
turntables turned at 78.0 rev/min. Suppose a turntable with this angular
speed is shut off, so that it comes to a stop 30.0 s later. If the turntable
has a constant angular acceleration of –0.272 rad/s2, what is its angular
displacement? Give your answer in both radians and number of
revolutions.

TANGENTIAL SPEED
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE
5.1The world’s tallest columns, which stand in front of the
Education Building in Albany, New York, are each 30 m tall.
If a fly circles a column with an angular speed of 4.44 rad/s,
and its tangential speed is 4.44 m/s, what is the radius of the
column?
5.2The longest dingo proof wire fence stretches across
southeastern Australia. Suppose this fence were to have a
circular shape. A rancher driving around the perimeter of the
fence with a tangential speed of 16.0 m/s has an angular speed
of 1.82 × 10–5 rad/s. What is the fence’s radius and length
(circumference)?
TANGENTIAL ACCELERATION
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE
6.1The world’s largest aquarium, at the EPCOT center in Orlando,
Florida, has a radius of 32 m. Bicycling around this aquarium with a
tangential acceleration of 0.20 m/s2, what would your angular
acceleration be?
6.2Dale Lyons and David Pettifer ran the London marathon in less than 4
h while bound together at one ankle and one wrist. Suppose they made
a turn with a radius of 8.0 m. If their tangential acceleration was −1.44
m/s2, what was their angular acceleration?

CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE

7.1The largest salami in the world, made in Norway,


was more than 20 m long. If a hungry mouse ran
around the salami’s circumference with a
tangential speed of 0.17 m/s, the centripetal
acceleration of the mouse was 0.29 m/s2. What was
the radius of the salami?
7.2The largest steerable single-dish radio telescope is
located at the branch of the Max Planck Institute in
Bonn, Germany. Suppose this telescope rotates
about its axis with the same angular speed as
Earth. The centripetal acceleration of the points at
the edge of the telescope is 2.65 × 10−7 m/s2.
What is the radius of the telescope dish?
TORQUE
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE
8.1 A lever is used to lift a boulder. The fulcrum is
placed 1.60 m away from the end at which you exert a
downward force, producing a torque with a magnitude
of 4.00 × 102 N•m. If the angle between the force and
the lever is 80.0°, what is the magnitude of the applied
force? Assume that the lever is massless.

8.2 Suppose the applied force in problem 1 produces


a counterclockwise torque. If the net torque exerted on
the lever in problem 1 is 14.0 N•m counterclockwise,
what is the weight of the boulder? Assume that the lever
arm between the boulder’s center of mass and the
fulcrum is 0.200 m and that the angle between the
boulder’s weight and the lever arm is 80.0°.

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