PHYSICS 1, CHAPTER 5

ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS

1. A disk, initially rotating at 120 rad/s, is slowed down with a constant angular acceleration of magnitude
4.0 rad/s2.
(a) How much time does the disk take to stop?
(b) Through what angle does the disk rotate during that time?
ANSWER: (a) 30 s; (b) 1.8  103 rad
2. A wheel has a constant angular acceleration of 3.0 rad/s2. During a certain 4.0 s interval, it turns
through an angle of 120 rad. Assuming that the wheel started from rest, how long has it been in motion at
the start of this 4.0 s interval?
ANSWER: 8.0 s
3. A flywheel turns through 40 rev as it slows from angular speed of 1.5 rad/s to a stop.
(a) Assuming a constant angular acceleration, find the time for it to come to rest.
(b) What is its angular acceleration?
(c) How much time is required for it to complete the first 20 of the 40 revolutions?
ANSWER: (a) 3.4  102 s; (b) - 4.5  10-3 rad/s2; (c) 98 s
4. (a) What is the angular speed  about the polar axis of a point on Earth's surface at latitude 40o N?
(Earth rotates about that axis.)
(b) What is the linear speed v of the point?
What are
(c)  and
(d) v
for a point at the equator?
ANSWER: (a) 7 .3  10-5 rad/s; (b) 3.5  102 m/s; (c) 7.3  10-5 rad/s; (d) 4.6  102 m/s
5. Two uniform solid cylinders, each rotating about its central (longitudinal) axis at 235 rad/s, have the
same mass of 1.25 kg but differ in radius.
What is the rotational kinetic energy of
(a) the smaller cylinder, of radius 0.25 m, and
(b) the larger cylinder, of radius 0.75 m?
ANSWER: (a) 1.1 kJ; (b) 9.7 kJ
6. A small ball of mass 0.75 kg is attached to one end of a 1.25-m-long massless rod, and the other end of
the rod is hung from a pivot. When the resulting pendulum is 30o from the vertical, what is the magnitude
of the gravitational torque calculated about the pivot?
ANSWER: 4.6 N.m
7. During the launch from a board, a diver's angular speed about her center of mass changes from zero to
6.20 rad/s in 220 ms. Her rotational inertia about her center of mass is 12.0 kg.m2. During the launch, what
are the magnitudes of
(a) her average angular acceleration and
(b) the average external torque on her from the board?
ANSWER: (a) 28.2rad/s2; (b) 338 N.m
8. A pulley, with a rotational inertia of 1.0  10-3 kg.m2 about its axle and a radius of 10 cm, is acted on
by a force applied tangentially at its rim. The force magnitude varies in time as F = 0.50t + 0.30t2, with F
in newtons and t in seconds. The pulley is initially at rest. At t = 3.0 s what are
(a) its angular acceleration and
(b) its angular speed?
ANSWER: (a) 4.2  102 rad/s2; (b) 5.0  102 rad/s
9. A 32.0 kg wheel, essentially a thin hoop with radius 1.20 m, is rotating at 280 rev/min. It must be
brought to a stop in 15.0 s.
(a) How much work must be done to stop it?
(b) What is the required average power?
ANSWER: (a) 19.8 kJ; (b) 1.32 kW
10. A meter stick is held vertically with one end on the floor and is then allowed to fall. Find the speed of
the other end just before it hits the floor, assuming that the end on the floor does not slip. (Hint: Consider
the stick to be a thin rod and use the conservation of energy principle.)
ANSWER: 5.42 m/s
11. In Fig. 1, two 6.20 kg blocks are connected by a massless string over a
pulley of radius 2.40 cm and rotational inertia 7.40  10-4 kg.m2. The string
does not slip on the pulley; it is not known whether there is friction between
the table and the sliding block; the pulley's axis is frictionless. When this
system is released from rest, the pulley turns through 1.30 rad in 91.0 ms and
the acceleration of the blocks is constant. What are
(a) the magnitude of the pulley's angular acceleration, Fig. 1
(b) the magnitude of either block's acceleration,
(c) string tension T1, and
(d) string tension T2?
ANSWER: (a) 314 rad/s2; (b) 7 .54 m/s2; (c) 14.0 N; (d) 4.36 N
12. A small ball with mass 1.30 kg is mounted on one end of a rod 0.780 m long and of negligible mass.
The system rotates in a horizontal circle about the other end of the rod at 5010 rev/min.
(a) Calculate the rotational inertia of the system about the axis of rotation.
(b) There is an air drag of 2.30  10-2 N on the ball, directed opposite its motion. What torque must be
applied to the system to keep it rotating at constant speed?
ANSWER: (a) 0.791 kg.m2; (b) 1 .79  10-2 N.m
13. A uniform ball, of mass M : 6.00 kg and radius R, rolls smoothly from rest down a ramp at angle
 = 30.0o.
(a) The ball descends a vertical height h = 1.20 m to reach the bottom of the ramp. What is its speed at the
bottom?
(b) What are the magnitude and direction of the frictional force on the ball as it rolls down the ramp?
ANSWER: (a) 4.10 m/s; (b) 8.40 N
14. A man stands on a platform that is rotating (without friction) with an angular speed of 1.2 rev/s; his
arms are outstretched and he holds a brick in each hand. The rotational inertia of the system consisting of
the man, bricks, and platform about the central vertical axis of the platform is 6.0 kg.m2. If by moving the
bricks the man decreases the rotational inertia of the system to 2.0 kg.m2, what are
(a) the resulting angular speed of the platform and
(b) the ratio of the new kinetic energy of the system to the original kinetic
(c) What source provided the added kinetic energy?
ANSWER: (a) 3.6 rev/s; (b) 3.0;
(c) forces on the bricks from the man transferred energy from the man's internal energy to kinetic energy
15. A horizontal vinyl record of mass 0.10 kg and radius 0.10 m rotates freely about a vertical axis
through its center with an angular speed of 4.7 rad/s. The rotational inertia of the record about its axis of
rotation is 5.0  10-4 kg.m2. A wad of wet putty of mass 0.020 kg drops vertically onto the record from
above and sticks to the edge of the record.
What is the angular speed of the record immediately after the putty sticks to it?
ANSWER: 3.4 rad/s
16. A small solid sphere with radius 0.25 cm and mass 0.56 g rolls without slipping on the inside of a
large fixed hemisphere with radius 15 cm and a vertical axis of symmetry. The sphere starts at the top
from rest.
(a) What is its kinetic energy at the bottom?
(b) What fraction of its kinetic energy at the bottom is associated with rotation about an axis through its
com?
(c) What is the magnitude of the normal force on the hemisphere from the sphere when the sphere reaches
the bottom?
ANSWER: (a) 0.81 mJ; (b) 0.29; (c) 1.3  10-2N