The document summarizes a laboratory experiment on uniform circular motion. The experiment investigates how translational speed relates to radial position when the period of circular motion is held constant. Test results show that while translational speed changes with radial position, the number of revolutions over time remains the same when period is constant. Therefore, there is no relationship between translational speed and radial position under conditions of uniform circular motion.
The document summarizes a laboratory experiment on uniform circular motion. The experiment investigates how translational speed relates to radial position when the period of circular motion is held constant. Test results show that while translational speed changes with radial position, the number of revolutions over time remains the same when period is constant. Therefore, there is no relationship between translational speed and radial position under conditions of uniform circular motion.
The document summarizes a laboratory experiment on uniform circular motion. The experiment investigates how translational speed relates to radial position when the period of circular motion is held constant. Test results show that while translational speed changes with radial position, the number of revolutions over time remains the same when period is constant. Therefore, there is no relationship between translational speed and radial position under conditions of uniform circular motion.
The document summarizes a laboratory experiment on uniform circular motion. The experiment investigates how translational speed relates to radial position when the period of circular motion is held constant. Test results show that while translational speed changes with radial position, the number of revolutions over time remains the same when period is constant. Therefore, there is no relationship between translational speed and radial position under conditions of uniform circular motion.
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Laboratory #3.
Uniform Circular Motion
Topic: Uniform Circular Motion
Objective: Create an investigation on particles moving on uniform circular motion about a fixed axis.
Simulation: iLEARNING ZONE
Problem to Investigate
What is the relationship of translational speed to radial position of the particle considering the period is set to constant?
Hypothesis
Hypothesis Translation speed and radial position of the particle is both present in a circular motion even if the period is set to constant.
Plan of the experiment
Dependent Translation speed
Independent Radial position of the particle at its period set to constant Procedure 1. Set the Period in 4.5s and the radius of path in 2.0m, make sure to use clockwise for the movement of the circle to avoid negative variables. 2. Get the angular displacement, angular velocity and linear speed. 3. Set a timer (we chose 20.00 s) and get the number of turns. 4. Repeat the step 1 with the period of 4.5 seconds and changed the radius of path in 1.0m and 0.5m. Do not forget to repeat procedure no. 2 and procedure no. 3 on every time that the value of the radius of path will change. 5. After all the procedure have done change the period into 3.5s, 2.5s, 1.5s and 1.0s and the radius will still remain on every Set of Period in 2.0m, 1.0m and 0.5m and get all the necessary information in the simulation. Results of the Experiment
PERIOD RADIUS OF ANGULAR LINEAR SPEED TIME NUMBER OF
PATH VELOCITY ELAPSED TURNS 4.5 s 2.0 m 1.40 rad s−1 2.79 m s−1 20.00 s 4.5 1.0 m 1.40 rad s−1 1.44 m s−1 20. 00 s 4.5 0.5 m 1.80 rad s−1 0.93 m s−1 20.00 s 4.5 3.5 s 2.0 m 1.80 rad s−1 3.59 m s−1 20.00 s 5.7 1.0 m 1.80 rad s−1 1.85 m s−1 20.00 s 5.7 0.5 m 1.80 rad s−1 0.95 m s−1 20.00 s 5.7 2.5 s 2.0 m 2.62 rad s−1 3.24 m s−1 20.00 s 8.0 1.0 m 2.51 rad s−1 2.59 m s−1 20.00 s 8.0 0.5 m 2.51 rad s−1 1.33 m s−1 20.0 s 8.0 1.5 s 2.0 m 4.19 rad s−1 8.38 m s−1 20.00 s 13.4 1.0 m 4.19 rad s−1 4.23 m s−1 20.00 s 13.4 0.5 m 4.19 rad s−1 2.18 m s−1 20.00 s 13.4 1.0 s 2.0 m 6.28 rad s−1 12.57 m s−1 20.00 s 20.00 1.0 m 6.28 rad s−1 6.03 m s−1 20.00 s 20.00 0.5 m 6.28 rad s−1 3.27 s−1 20.00 s 20.00
o Explanation The table shows that translational speed is related to radial position (a direction pointing along a radius from an object's center or perpendicular to a curved path), and that they both affect the flow of a particle in a circular motion. But when the period (the time for one revolution around the circle) is constant there will be no change in translational speed but changing the radius will still not affect the number of revolutions in its path. For example, we used 3 different radius of path and 5 different periods, we set the timer for each period with a different radius of path for 20 seconds and they all get the same total number of revolutions in their path. It appears that there are no changes in the total revolutions in a circular path in each category whenever the radius of path is different as long as the period is constant. It means that there is no significant relationship between translation speed and radial motion when the period is set to constant. Based on our understanding of circular motion, we may conclude that the magnitude of a period's translational speed while traveling in a circle has no relationship to the period's radial motion. In each classification, there are no variations in the total number of revolutions in a circular path.
Conclusion
The purpose of this experiment was to know the relationship of translational speed to radial position of the particle considering the period is set to constant. The result supported the hypothesis that there is a uniform angular velocity even if the period is set to constant. But in terms of linear speed, it was found out that the average speed and the radius of the circle are directly proportional. It means that objects moving around circles of different radius in the same period, the object traversing the circle of larger radius must be traveling with the greatest speed.
