TUTORIAL 1 & 2

ROTATIONAL MOTIONS & STATIC EQUILIBRIUM

1. An electric motor turns at 600 rpm.

a. What is the angular velocity in rad/s?
b. What is the angular displacement after 6 s?
(62.83 rad/s, 376.98 rad)
2. A disk of radius 5.0 cm rotates at constant speed of 800 rpm. Determine,
a. its angular speed,
b. the radial acceleration of a point in the rim,
c. the distance covered if the disk rolls for 2.0 s.
(83.3 rad, 351 m s-2, 83.8 m)

3. The shaft of a motor rotates at 1800 rpm. Through how many radians does it turns in 18 s?
(1080 π rad)

4. A cable is wrapped around a drum 80 cm in diameter. How many revolution of this drum
will cause the object attached to the cable to move a linear distance of 2.0 m?
(0.796 rev)

5. A point on the edge of a large wheel of radius 3.0 m moves through an angle of 37˚. Find the
length of the arc described by the point.
(1.938 m)
6. A wheel turning with angular speed of 30 rev/s is brought to rest with a constant
acceleration. It turns 60 rev before it stops.
a. What is its angular acceleration? (-47.13 rad s-2)
b. What time elapsed before it stops? (4 s)

7. Find:
a. The moment of inertia of a 1 kg phonograph turntable 34 cm in diameter.
b. What is its kinetic energy when it rotates at 45 rpm?
(0.0145 kg m2, 0.162 J)

8. A flywheel whose moment of inertia is 6 kgm2 is acted upon by constant torque of 50 Nm.
a. What is its angular acceleration?
b. How long does it take to go from rest to velocity of 90 rad/s?
c. What is its kinetic energy at this velocity?
(8.33 rad s-2, 10.80 s, 24.3 kJ)

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9. A disc is rotated from rest about a vertical axis through its center O with an angular
acceleration of 2.50 rad s-2. Calculate:
a. the angular velocity
b. the angular displacement of the line OP after 5.0 s.
(12.5 rad s-1, 31.25 rad)

10. A cylinder of radius 20.0 cm rolls down an inclined plane from rest. After 4.0 s, its angular
velocity is 18.0 rad s-1.

θ
v

Find
a. the angular displacement,
b. the linear displacement along the plane, and
c. the linear velocity of the cylinder after 4.0 s.
(36.0 rad, 7.2 m, 3.60 m s-1)
11. Define angular velocity and its S.I. units.

12. A car is travelling with a velocity of 17 ms-1 on a straight horizontal highway. The wheels of
the car have a radius of 48 cm. If the car then speeds up with an acceleration of 2 ms-2 for 5
s, determine the number of revolutions of the wheels during this period.
(229.17 rad)

13. 0.1 kg circular disc with radius 0.1 m rotates about a vertical axis through its center with an
angular speed of 4.7 rad/s. The inertia of the disc about its axis is 5 x 10-4 kg m2. A small wet
insect of mass 0.02 kg drops onto the disc and sticks to the edge of it. Determine is the angular
speed of the disc immediately after the insect sticks on it.
(3.36 rad/s)

14. A rotating object with initial angular velocity of 12 rad s-1 increases its rotational speed to 20
rad s-1 in 2 s. During this time, calculate its
a. angular acceleration, assumed constant.
b. angular displacement.
c. number of revolutions.
(4 rad/s2, 32 rad, 5 rev)

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15. A uniform disc is dropped onto an identical disc which rotates at 4.2 rev s-1 around a
frictionless axis. Both discs spin together coaxially. Determine the angular frequency of the
combination.
(2.1 rad/s)

16. Determine the angular momentum of the Earth (a) about its rotation axis (assume the Earth
is a uniform sphere), and (b) in its orbit around the Sun (treat the Earth as a particle orbiting
the Sun). The Earth has mass = 6.0 ×1024 kg, radius = 6.4×106 m, and is 1.5 ×108 km from the
Sun.

17. A grinding disk of radius 0.6 m and mass 30 kg is rotating 460 revolutions in one minute.
a. Calculate the moment of inertia.
b. Determine the rotational kinetic energy.

18. If the masses in the below diagram are rotating about the axis once every second.

B = 0.2 kg A = 0.1 kg

1.0 m 0.5 m

a) What is the value of the angular velocity

b) What is the magnitude of the angular momentum of the axis of the rotation of each
mass? Hence find the magnitude of the total angular momentum.
c) What is the total moment of inertia?
d) What is the total kinetic energy of rotation?

19. A grind stone has a moment of inertia of 1.6 × 10-3 kg m-2. When a constant torque is
applied, the flywheel reaches an angular velocity of 1200 rev/min in 15 s. Assuming it
started from rest. Find the,
a. angular acceleration,
b. unbalanced tourqe,
c. angular displacement after 15 s,
d. work done by flywheel after 15 s. the
(8.377 rad s-2, 0.013 N.m, 942.49 rad, 12.25 J)

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20. What is the sum of all the torques at point D in figure below?

30N

10cm 10cm 10cm 10cm

A B C D E

10N 20N 40N

Figure 2

(- 5 N.m (clockwise))

21. Two balls, B1and B2 of weights 2.5 N and 17.5 N respectively are connected by a rod of
negligible weight and length L m. How far away from ball B1, should a pivot be placed so as
to balance the system below? (0.125 L)

17.5 N
2.5 N
L
B1 B2

Figure 3