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    This tutorial sheet contains problems related to plane-polar coordinate systems, conservative forces, and work-energy concepts. The problems involve calculating basis vectors, obtaining velocity and acceleration components, expressing motion in plane-polar coordinates, finding potential energies, determining conservative forces, and calculating work.

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    This tutorial sheet contains problems related to plane-polar coordinate systems, conservative forces, and work-energy concepts. The problems involve calculating basis vectors, obtaining velocity and acceleration components, expressing motion in plane-polar coordinates, finding potential energies, determining conservative forces, and calculating work.

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    This tutorial sheet contains problems related to plane-polar coordinate systems, conservative forces, and work-energy concepts. The problems involve calculating basis vectors, obtaining velocity and acceleration components, expressing motion in plane-polar coordinates, finding potential energies, determining conservative forces, and calculating work.

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    PH110: Tutorial Sheet 2

    This tutorial sheet contains problems related to plane-polar coordinate system & work-energy
    conservative forces etc.
    1. Using known results from the Cartesian coordinate system, and the relation between
    plane-polar and Cartesian basis vectors, calculate: (a) r̂ × θ̂, (b) θ̂ × k̂, and (c) k̂ × r̂.
    2. A particle is moving along a circular path of radius a, with angular velocity given by ω(t) =
    ω0 + αt, where ω0 and α are constants. Obtain the radial and tangential components of
    its velocity and acceleration.
    3. A particle is moving along the line y = a, with the velocity v = uî, where u is a constant.
    Express its velocity in plane polar coordinates.
    4. A particle moves in such a way that θ̇ = ω (constant), and r = r0 eβt , where r0 and β are
    constants. Write down its velocity and acceleration in plane polar coordinates. For what
    values of β will the radial acceleration of the particle by zero?
    5. Consider a circle of radius a, with the origin of the plane polar coordinate system placed
    at a point on the circumference. The particle is moving along the circle with a constant
    speed u.
    (a) What is the equation of the circle in this coordinate system?
    (b) What is the value of θ̇ in terms of u and a?
    (c) Write down the velocity of the particle in plane-polar coordinate system.
    (d) What is the acceleration of the particle in plane-polar coordinate system?
    6. A particle moves along the curve r = Aθ, with A = 1/π m/rad, and θ = αt2 , where α
    is a constant. Obtain the expressions for the velocity and acceleration of this particle in
    plane polar coordinates.
    √
    (a) Show that the radial acceleration is zero when θ = 1/ 2 rad.
    (b) At what angles do radial and tangential components of the acceleration have equal
    magnitude?
    7. * Mass m rotates on a frictionless table, held to circular path by a string which passes
    through a hole in the table. The string is slowly pulled through the hole so that the radius
    of the circle changes from R0 to R1 . Show that the work done in pulling the string equals
    the increase in kinetic energy of the mass.
    8. * A particle of mass m moves in one dimension along the x axis, such that 0 < x < ∞.
    It is acted on by a constant force directed towards the origin with the magnitude B , and
    and inverse law repulsive force of magnitude A/x2 .
    (a) Find the potential energy function V (x)
    (b) Plot the potential energy as a function of x, and the total energy of the system,
    assuming that the maximum kinetic energy is K0 = 21 mv02 .
    (c) What is the point of equilibrium, i.e., the point where net force acting on the particle
    is zero.

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    9. * A particle of mass M is held xed at the origin. The gravitational potential energy of
    another particle of m, in the eld of the rst mass, is given by
    GM m
    V (r) = − ,
    r
    where G is the gravitational constant, and r is the distance of mass m from the origin.
    (a) What is the force acting on the particle of mass m?
    (b) Calculate the curl of this force.
    10. * Consider a 2D force eld F = A(y 2 î + 2x2 ĵ). Calculate the work done by this force in
    going around a closed path which is a square made up of sides of length a, lying in the
    xy -plane, with two of its vertices located at the origin, and point (a, a). Find the answer
    by doing the line integral, as well as by using the Stokes' theorem. The path is traversed
    in a counter clockwise manner.
    11. Find the forces for the following potential energies
    (a) V (x, y, z) = Ax2 + By 2 + Cz 2
    (b) * V (x, y, z) = A ln(x2 + y 2 + z 2 )
    (c) * V (r, θ) = A cos θ/r2 (r and θ are plane polar coordinates)
    Above, A, B, and, C are constants.
    12. Determine whether each of the following forces is conservative. Find the potential energy
    function if it exists. A, α, β are constants.
    (a) * F = A(3î + z ĵ + y k̂)
    (b) * F = Axyz(î + ĵ + k̂)
    (c) Fx = A sin(αy) cos(βz), Fy = −Axα cos(αy) cos(βz) , Fz = Ax sin(αy) sin(βz)

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