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Circular Motion and Rotational Motion Activity With Solution

This document contains 5 problems about circular motion involving objects like a cork swung in a circle, a stopper swung at the end of a string, a car driving around a circular track, Tarzan swinging on a vine, and a fishing reel accelerating. The problems ask the reader to calculate values like tension, speed, net force, centripetal acceleration, and angular velocity given information like mass, radius, time, and angular acceleration.

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Circular Motion and Rotational Motion Activity With Solution

This document contains 5 problems about circular motion involving objects like a cork swung in a circle, a stopper swung at the end of a string, a car driving around a circular track, Tarzan swinging on a vine, and a fishing reel accelerating. The problems ask the reader to calculate values like tension, speed, net force, centripetal acceleration, and angular velocity given information like mass, radius, time, and angular acceleration.

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Physics 1

Activity 4 Circular Motion Problems

1. An 8.0 g cork is swung in a horizontal circle with a radius of 35 cm. It makes


30 revolutions in 12 seconds. What is the tension in the string? (Assume the
string is nearly horizontal)
2. A 15 g stopper is swung in a horizontal circle with a radius of 0.80 meters.
The tension in the string is 1.5 Newtons. Find the speed of the stopper and
determine how long it takes to complete 30 revolutions. (Assume the string
is very nearly horizontal)
3. A 1200 kg car drives at a constant speed of 14 m/s around a circular track
(r=80.0m)
a. What is the size of the net force acting on the car?
b. What is the maximum frictional force that can act on the tires if the static
coefficient of friction is 0.30? Will the car’s tires start slide? If not, how fast
can the car move before it does start sliding?

4. Tarzan (m=90 kg) swings from a vine that is 3.0 meters long. His speed at the
bottom of the swing is 4.0 m/s.
a. What is his centripetal acceleration?
b. What is the NET force acting on him?
c. What is the tension in the vine?
5. A deep-sea fisherman hooks a big fish that swims away from the boat pulling
the fishing line from his fishing reel. The whole system is initially at rest and
the fishing line unwinds from the reel at a radius of 4.50 cm from its axis of
rotation. The reel is given an angular acceleration of 118 rad/s 2 for 3.00 sec
as seen in Figure 1.
(a) What is the final angular velocity (ω) of the reel?
(b) At what speed(v) is fishing line leaving the reel after 3.00 s elapses?
(c) How many revolutions does the reel make?

Filename: Activity 4 Circular and Rotational Motion


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