Chapter 1: Basic Definitions: Plane Motion Angular Velocity Angular Acceleration
Chapter 1: Basic Definitions: Plane Motion Angular Velocity Angular Acceleration
➢ Rigid body
➢ Plane motion
➢ Space motion
➢ Rotation
➢ General motion
➢ Angular velocity
➢ Angular acceleration
Rigid body - RB
A rigid body is defined as a body on which the distance between two points never
changes whatever be the force applied on it.
A rigid body is usually considered as a continuous distribution of mass
(Wikipedia).
The distance between two points 𝐴 and 𝐵 can be defined as
𝑑 = 𝐴𝐵 (1)
after the motion of the rigid body, the distance between two pints 𝐴∗ and 𝐵∗ is
defined by
𝑑 ∗ = 𝐴∗ 𝐵∗ (2)
therefore, the definition of the rigid body, we get
𝑑 = 𝑑∗ (3)
Consequently, the distance between any two points in rigid body remain
constants after motion of rigid body or due to any applied force.
Types of rigid body motion
Plane motion
Rectangular motion
Curvilinear motion
Space motion
❖ All particles in the body rotate through the same angle during the same time
interval.
❖ Thus, all particles have the same angular velocity and angular acceleration.
The angular velocity
𝑑𝜃
𝜔= = 𝜃ሶ (4)
𝑑𝑡
𝜔 = ω0 + 𝛼𝑡 (7)
න 𝜔𝑑𝜔 = 𝛼 න 𝑑𝜃
𝜔0 𝜃0
𝜔2 = 𝜔02 + 2𝛼 𝜃 − 𝜃0 (8)
න ω0 + 𝛼𝑡 𝑑𝑡 = න 𝑑𝜃
0 𝜃0
𝛼 2
𝜃 = 𝜃0 + 𝜔0 + 𝑡 (9)
2
Finally, we get
𝛼 2
𝜃 = 𝜃0 + 𝜔0 + 𝑡
2
𝜔2 = 𝜔02 + 2𝛼 𝜃 − 𝜃0
𝜔 = ω0 + 𝛼𝑡
General plane motion
A body rotates about a fixed axis, any point 𝑃 in the body travels along a
circular path
The change in angular position, 𝑑𝜃, is called the angular displacement, with units of
either radians or revolutions
1 Revolution = 2𝜋 Radians
Angular velocity
𝑑𝜃 ∙
𝜔= =𝜃 𝑟𝑎𝑑/𝑠 (10)
𝑑𝑡
Consider rotation of rigid body about a fixed axis 𝐴𝐴′, as in the figure
𝛥𝑠 = 𝐵𝑃 𝛥𝜃 = 𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑛 𝜙 𝛥𝜃 (11)
𝑑𝑠 𝛥𝑠 𝛥𝜃 ∙
𝑣= = 𝑙𝑖𝑚 = 𝐵𝑃 𝑙𝑖𝑚 = 𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑛 𝜙 𝜃 (12)
𝑑𝑡 𝛥𝑡→0 𝛥𝑡 𝛥𝑡→0 𝛥𝑡
𝑣 =𝜔×𝑟 (13)
𝑑𝑣 𝑑
𝑣 =𝜔×𝑟 𝑎= = 𝜔×𝑟
𝑑𝑡 𝑑𝑡
𝑑𝜔 𝑑𝑟
= ×𝑟+𝜔×
𝑑𝑡 𝑑𝑡
𝑑𝜔
= ×𝑟+𝜔×𝑣
𝑑𝑡
𝑑𝜔
𝑎= ×𝑟+𝜔×𝑣
Use eq. (13) 𝑑𝑡
𝑎 =𝛼×𝑟+𝜔×𝜔×𝑟
use the relation
𝜔×𝜔×𝑟 =𝜔 𝜔∙𝑟 − 𝜔∙𝜔 𝑟
then
𝑎 = 𝛼 × 𝑟 − 𝜔2 𝑟 (14)
Finally
𝑣 =𝜔×𝑟
𝑎 = 𝛼 × 𝑟 − 𝜔2 𝑟
The following figure shows that the acceleration consist of two components
➢ 𝛼 × 𝑟 Tangential acceleration 𝑎𝑡 = 𝛼𝑟