10.1 Rotational variables  (Page 6/11)

A clock is mounted on the wall. As you look at it, what is the direction of the angular velocity vector of the second hand?

What is the value of the angular acceleration of the second hand of the clock on the wall?

A baseball bat is swung. Do all points on the bat have the same angular velocity? The same tangential speed?

The blades of a blender on a counter are rotating clockwise as you look into it from the top. If the blender is put to a greater speed what direction is the angular acceleration of the blades?

Calculate the angular velocity of Earth.

A track star runs a 400-m race on a 400-m circular track in 45 s. What is his angular velocity assuming a constant speed?

A wheel rotates at a constant rate of $2.0\times {10}^3\text{rev}\text{/}\text{min}$ . (a) What is its angular velocity in radians per second? (b) Through what angle does it turn in 10 s? Express the solution in radians and degrees.

A particle moves 3.0 m along a circle of radius 1.5 m. (a) Through what angle does it rotate? (b) If the particle makes this trip in 1.0 s at a constant speed, what is its angular velocity? (c) What is its acceleration?

A compact disc rotates at 500 rev/min. If the diameter of the disc is 120 mm, (a) what is the tangential speed of a point at the edge of the disc? (b) At a point halfway to the center of the disc?

Unreasonable results. The propeller of an aircraft is spinning at 10 rev/s when the pilot shuts off the engine. The propeller reduces its angular velocity at a constant $2.0\text{rad}\text{/}{\text{s}}^2$ for a time period of 40 s. What is the rotation rate of the propeller in 40 s? Is this a reasonable situation?

A gyroscope slows from an initial rate of 32.0 rad/s at a rate of $0.700{\text{rad/s}}^2$ . How long does it take to come to rest?

On takeoff, the propellers on a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) increase their angular velocity from rest at a rate of $\omega =(25.0t)\text{rad}\text{/}\text{s}$ for 3.0 s. (a) What is the instantaneous angular velocity of the propellers at $t=2.0\text{s}$ ? (b) What is the angular acceleration?

The angular position of a rod varies as $20.0t^2$ radians from time $t=0$ . The rod has two beads on it as shown in the following figure, one at 10 cm from the rotation axis and the other at 20 cm from the rotation axis. (a) What is the instantaneous angular velocity of the rod at $t=5\text{s}?$ (b) What is the angular acceleration of the rod? (c) What are the tangential speeds of the beads at $t=5\text{s}?$ (d) What are the tangential accelerations of the beads at $t=5\text{s}?$ (e) What are the centripetal accelerations of the beads at $t=5\text{s}?$