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Rotatinal Motion Practice Questions

This document contains 10 practice questions about rotational motion. It provides the questions, relevant data for each question, and the answer for students to check their work. The questions cover topics like torque, angular acceleration, rotational inertia, rolling motion, and kinetic energy. Students are asked to calculate values like torque required to stop a Ferris wheel, acceleration of objects rolling down inclines, and distance a plane wheel slides before rolling without slipping.

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Rotatinal Motion Practice Questions

This document contains 10 practice questions about rotational motion. It provides the questions, relevant data for each question, and the answer for students to check their work. The questions cover topics like torque, angular acceleration, rotational inertia, rolling motion, and kinetic energy. Students are asked to calculate values like torque required to stop a Ferris wheel, acceleration of objects rolling down inclines, and distance a plane wheel slides before rolling without slipping.

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Rotational Motion Practice Questions Submission deadline: 01/03/2023

(1) While starting up a roulette wheel, the croupier exerts a torque of 100 N%m with his hand on
the spokes of the wheel. What angular acceleration does this produce? Treat the wheel as a
disk of mass 30 kg and radius 0.25 m. (Ans: 110 rad/s^2)


(2) The centre span of a revolving drawbridge consists of a uniform steel girder of mass 300
metric tons and length 25 m. This girder can be regarded as a uniform thin rod. The bridge
opens by rotating about a vertical axis through its centre. What torque is required to open this
bridge in 60 s? Assume that the bridge rst accelerates uniformly through an angular interval
of 45o and then the torque is reversed, so the bridge decelerates uniformly through an angular
interval of 45o and comes to rest after rotating by 90o. (Ans: 27 x 10^3 N.m)

(3) The original Ferris wheel, built by George Ferris, had a radius of 38 m and a mass of 1.9x106
kg. Assume that all of its mass was uniformly distributed along the rim of the wheel. If the
wheel was initially rotating at 0.050 rev/min, what constant torque had to be applied to bring it
to a full stop in 30 s? What force exerted on the rim of the wheel would have given such a
torque? (Ans: 480 x 10^3 N.m, 13 x 10^3 N)

(4) A hula hoop rolls down a slope of 1:10 without slipping. What is the (linear) acceleration of the
hoop? (Ans: 0.49 m/s^2)

(5) The spare wheel of a truck, accidentally released on a straight road leading down a steep hill,
rolls down the hill without slip- ping. The mass of the wheel is 60 kg, and its radius is 0.40 m;
the mass distribution of the wheel is approximately that of a uniform disk. At the bottom of the
hill, at a vertical distance of 120 m below the point of release, the wheel slams into a
telephone booth. What is the total kinetic energy of the wheel just before impact? How much
of this kinetic energy is translational energy of the centre of mass of the wheel? How much is
rotational kinetic energy about the centre of mass? What is the speed of the wheel?
(Ans: 71 kJ, 31 m/s, translational KE = 29 kJ, Rotational KE = 42 kJ)

(6) Galileo measured the acceleration of a sphere rolling down an inclined plane. Suppose that,
starting from rest, the sphere takes 1.6 s to roll a distance of 3.00 m down a 20o inclined
plane. What value of g can you deduce from this? (Ans: 9.6 m/s^2)

(7) A yo-yo consists of a uniform disk with a string wound around the rim. The upper end of the
string is held xed. The yo-yo unwinds as it drops. What is its downward acceleration?
(Ans: 6.5 m/s^2)

(8) A man is trying to roll a barrel along a level street by


pushing forward along its top rim. At the same time
another man is pushing backward at the middle,
with a force of equal magnitude F (see Fig. 13.33).
The barrel rolls without slipping. Which way will the
barrel roll? Find the magnitude and direction of the
friction force at the point of contact with the street.
The barrel is a uniform cylinder of mass M and
radius R. (Ans: 2F/3)

(9) Suppose that a tow truck applies a horizontal force of 4000 N to the front end of an
automobile similar to that described in Problem 63 of Chapter 12. Taking into account the
rotational inertia of the wheels and ignoring frictional losses, what is the acceleration of the
automobile? What is the percentage di erence between this value of the acceleration and the
value calculated by neglecting the rotational inertia of the wheels? (Ans: 2.83 m/s^2, 2.94 m/
s^2, 4%)

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Rotational Motion Practice Questions Submission deadline: 01/03/2023
(10) When the wheels of a landing airliner touch the runway, they
are not rotating initially. The wheels rst slide on the runway
(and produce clouds of smoke and burn marks on the
runway, which you may have noticed; see Fig. 13.34), until
the sliding friction force has accelerated the wheels to the
rotational speed required for rolling without slipping. From
the following data, calculate how far the wheel of an airliner
slips before it begins to roll without slipping: the wheel has a
radius of 0.60 m and a mass of 160 kg, the normal force
acting on the wheel is 2.0 x 105 N, the speed of the airliner is
200 km / h, and the coe cient of sliding friction for the
wheel on the runway is 0.80. Treat the wheel as a uniform
disk. (Ans: 1.6 m)

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