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Mechanics: Two masses on a pulley causing two cylinders to accelerate
Hi! I need help with this problem. m1-2-3-4 and R are given. There is no slip in the system. I have to give F1-2-3-4 in respect of the masses and R. Here is what I managed to m1 is easy: m1*a = m1*g - T(tension of the rope) m2: m2*a = T - (?) <-- I have a problem with this. F1 and F3 is the...- Hohen
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- Accceleration Accelerate Cylinders Force Mechanics Pulley Rotating Two masses
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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The inelastic collision between a disk and a rotating platform
A disk is dropped on a platform rotating at a constant angular speed ##\omega_i## as shown below. The question asks whether the final kinetic energy of the platform is conserved. I understand the angular momentum is always conserved provided that the net torque is 0, so I wrote the following...- Leo Liu
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- Collision Disk Inelastic Inelastic collision Platform Rotating
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Rotational Mechanics Question - A Rotating Bar
This isn't really a proper homework question, but something I wondered about myself. To simplify things, we say that pivot point is in the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system, and the angles are constrained to the first quadrant. We see that the weight of the barbell is given as $$F =...- Mayhem
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- Mechanics Rotating Rotational Rotational mechanics
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Problem about a ball rolling on a rotating hoop
[No template as this thread was moved to the homework forums after it had attracted several replies] Here I have a tutorial problem as follows: The problem I have is about part a, whose answer is as follows: When I solve the partial derivative on Vf w.r.t. r, I get Vf = mω^2rsin^2(θ)/2...- Tony Hau
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- Ball Rolling Rotating
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Angular momentum of a rotating disc
"A smooth horizontal disc rotates with a constant angular velocity ω about a stationary vertical axis passing through its centre, the point O. At a moment t=0 a disc is set in motion from that point with velocity v0. Find the angular momentum M(t) of the disc relative to the point O in the...- LCSphysicist
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- Angular Angular momentum Disc Momentum Rotating Rotating disc
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Releasing a hollow cylinder on a rotating disk
There is no net external torque since the cylinder is slipping (no friction), so the angular momentum should be conserved. $$L_f=\frac 12MR^2\omega_i=\frac 12\times3.8\times0.52^2\times50\times\frac{2\pi\times0.52}{60}$$- archaic
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- Cylinder Disk Hollow cylinder Rotating Rotating disk
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Derive the equation of effective force on a rotating frame about Earth
In my textbook, the effective force of a particle on a rotating frame is given as below: The diagram is: What I do not understand is the expression for Rf dotdot, which is given as below: According to the book, an arbitary vector Q can be expressed as: So Rdotdot w.r.t fixed frame can be... -
B Rotating a point in 3-space through an angle about some vector
Denote ##v=(1,2,3)^T##, ##\theta=\arctan(2)##, and ##\phi=\arctan(\frac{3}{\sqrt{5}})##.The way that I attempted this was by performing the following steps: (1) Rotate ##v## about the z-axis ##-\theta## degrees, while keeping the z-coordinate constant. (2) Rotate ##v## about the y-axis...- Eclair_de_XII
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- Angle Point Rotating Vector
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- Forum: Linear and Abstract Algebra
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Angular momentum of a system of a rotating rod and sliding rings
I got the correct answer for the first part but I'm not sure why the answer for (b) is the same for (a). Wouldn't the rings falling off mean that I_f = \frac{1}{12}M_L L^2 only where I_F, M_L, L are the final moment of inertia, mass of the rod and length of the rod as opposed to I_f =...- Eggue
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- Angular Angular momentum Momentum Rings Rod Rotating Sliding System
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A question about different lens setups imaging a rotating stick
If i put a rotating stick behind lens of several types, so the stick center is behind the lens center, will the stick edges always appear to move at the same rate as areas closer to the stick center? -
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A rotating system of two point particles with inner torque
Lets say we have a system of two point particles (1. and 2.) which are rotating around an axis. What is written next in my physics course book is: The torque of a 2.body on the 1. body is M21=r1xF21 and the torque of the 1.body on the 2.body is M12=r2xF12. Understandable. But how? There is no... -
Motion of rotating rig, find the angle variation with control rod length
Summary:: We have a rotating arm, offset from the centre of rotation by a certain length, which is controlled by varying the length of a control rod. Need the angle of the rotating arm in terms of length of the rod. The blue line is a fixed column structure. CE and BD form the rotational...- alexm
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- Angle Angles Control Geometry Length Motion Rod Rotating Variation
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Low friction horizontal rotating platform
I am looking for a rotation devise like that one in this video below (from 00:40 seconds). Does anyone know where to get one, or have any idea about how to create a nice and stable rotation setup for experiments without too much hassle and DIY? A bike wheel won't do, a disk is better, because I...- SpaceThoughts
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- Friction Horizontal Platform Rotating
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- Forum: Mechanical Engineering
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Strange turn of a rotating playing card when I throw it
I have observed that when i throw a card and give it a angular velocity, it "aim" to vertical and depending on direction start to rotate. For example if it rotates to the left in horizontal, vertically left side of cart goes up and right goes down. Conversely for the right rotation. I am not... -
Hydrodynamic drag of a rotating paddle wheel
Hello, i have a problem that look's easy to solve but really is not. It involves a rotating paddle wheel submerged in water and i want to know the force exerted on the wheels and the torque required to rotate it. I have made a simple drawing to illustrate the problem below. I want to use the...- erlend
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- Drag Fluid dynamics Hydrodynamic Rotating Wheel
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- Forum: Mechanical Engineering
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Torque on a rotating system system
I calculated the total moment of inertia of the system to be ##2ml²Sin²θ##, so the angular momentum is ##2ml²ωSin²θ##. To get the torque on the system I need to differentiate the angular momentum but I don't have any time dependent terms. What should I do?- Saptarshi Sarkar
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- Rotating System Torque
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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A Is the Rotating Lepton Model a Valid Approach to Hadron Masses?
I just came across a 2016 paper [1] that claims to have computed reasonably accurate masses for hadrons using what it calls a "rotating lepton model" and "the relativistic Newton equation". An earlier 2001 paper by two of the same authors [2] appears to be the first introduction of the general...- PeterDonis
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- Lepton Model Rotating
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- Forum: Beyond the Standard Models
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Velocity / Acceleration Diagrams of a Mechanism - Piston and a rotating rod
Summary:: This is a question about finding the acceleration of a point in a mechanism Hi, I have a question about the mechanism shown in the attached picture: Question: We are told that \omega = 6 rad/s and the first part is asking me to find the acceleration of point P on the piston when...- Master1022
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- Acceleration Diagrams Mechanism Piston Rod Rotating Velocity
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Understanding Unbalance Force in Rotating Systems
I would like to undertand more the force caused by unbalance in a rotor, assume that the bearing is represented with 2 springs like above: The geometrical center of the rotor ##O## is equivalent to it center of gravity ##C_g## and the center of the stator (bearing) ##O'## The rotor is perfectly...- synMehdi
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- Force Rotating
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- Forum: Mechanical Engineering
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Moving relative to a rotating helix
I was thinking about a situation related to Galilean relativity but couldn't come up with a solution to the problem. I would be very grateful if someone can explain it to me. So, I was thinking of a situation where I am in the reference frame of a block moving at velocity u along the x-axis and...- Saptarshi Sarkar
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- Helix Relative Rotating
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- Forum: Mechanics
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Man rotating in a merry-go-round and grabbing a pendulum
Where: 1) ##A## is the translational acceleration, ##\Omega## the angular velocity and ##\dot \Omega## the angular acceleration (all relative to the inertial frame attached to the ground ##F##). 2) ##r'##, ##v'## and ##a'## are the position, velocity and acceleration vectors, all relative to...- JD_PM
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- Classical mechanics Pendulum Rotating Rotational dynamics
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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Magnetic field of a rotating cylinder with permanent polarization
I am struggling to get my work to match the posted solutions to this problem. I understand part (a) but can’t get the integral to work out for (b). I know I have to use Biot-Savart and add up the components from the the surface and volume currents. The cylinder is very long, so I need to make a...- astrocytosis
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- Current density Cylinder Field Magnetic Magnetic field Magnetism Polarization Rotating
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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Rotating Flywheel: Tips & Tricks for Beginners
Hey everyone! Was trying to answer this question and was wondering if this was the right way to go about it? Any help would be really appreciated!- Bolter
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- Flywheel Rotating
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Man walking on a rotating merry-go-round
Some information Newton's second law in a non-inertial frame is given by: Where: 1) ##A## is the translational acceleration, ##\Omega## the angular velocity and ##\dot \Omega## the angular acceleration (all relative to the inertial frame attached to the ground ##F##). 2) r', v' and a' are...- JD_PM
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- Classical mechanics Non inertial frame Rotating
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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A Stress-energy tensor of a rotating rod
A rod rotates freely (edit: about an axis perpendicular to its length) in empty space. Working in an inertial coordinate system where the rod rotates around a fixed point, the rod is straight, of length ##2L## in its spinning state, and its mass distribution is symmetric along its length. The...- Ibix
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- Rod Rotating Stress-energy tensor Tensor
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Rotational dynamics: Rotating rod with two attached balls about a non principal axis
Firstly I deduced that in this situation the moment of inertia I, is not going to be parallel to w. And I calculated it as a matter of the angle, for the rod and the two point particles attached (with a mass 'm'), and the total moment of Inertia ended up being: I=((R²*sin²α)/2)*(M/6 + m) Being...- Nacho_rc11
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- Axis Balls Dynamics Rod Rotating Rotational Rotational dynamics
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Wire rotating inside a magnetic field
For a infinitesimal wire of lengh dx, the induced potential difference in an uniform B field perpendicular to it's motion is : dE=B.Vp.dx, where Vp is the component of the velocity perpendicular to the wire. Looking to the big wire I tried to take an arbitrary point express dE in function of...- Moara
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- Field Magnetic Magnetic field Rotating Wire
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MHB Calculate volume of a solid rotating around the y-axis
Sorry if i made any language errors, English isn't my first language. Question: The limited area in the plane is created when the space between the line y=1 and the graph to the function f(x)=3*x/(x^2+1) rotates around the y-axis. Calculate the volume of the solid.I want to sum up all the... -
Free body diagram -- Ball rotating on one arm of a Y shaped pole
To start off with, I can't seem to interpret the FBD here. Here are my drawing: and what I interpret as. From here, I feel like I can (it's wrong obviously but I'm not sure why) state that sin theta = o/h = o/mg = N/mg , so N= mg sin theta? Thanks- jisbon
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- Arm Ball Body Diagram Free body Free body diagram Pole Rotating
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Calculating the average linear speed of all points in a rotating sphere
Is there a way to calculate the average linear speed of all points in the volume of a sphere rotating on a single axis? Since points closer to the axis of rotation and the poles move slower than points further out, would the average speed be a simple function of r/2 and pi? It would seem that...- Darius Kaufmann
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- Average Linear Points Rotating Speed Sphere
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- Forum: Mechanics
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To find the increase in the radius of a rotating ring
The increase in radius is due to the centripetal force acting on the ring. The centripetal force acting on each point of the ring is directed towards its center. We can find force using ## F_c = M(\omega)^2R## We can use this ##F_c## in the equation of Hooke's Law to find the elongation Could...- Kaushik
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- increase Radius Ring Rotating
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Tension of a rod rotating on a horizontal table about a vertical axis
If a rod is on a table (horizontally) and rotating about an axis that passes through one of its ends and vertical to the table, what would be the tension on the opposite end of the rod (the end opposite to the axis) . In this post (Check this post out from Socratic QnA), the limits take while... -
Find the forces applied to a rotating level
Homework Statement: Solve parametrically the system with g, load cell measurements and know accelerations. Homework Equations: to be found Consider that we know angles tetha(t) of a mass-less link rotating about its centerr O. - so we also have velocities and accelerations - and values of...- melissafern
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- Applied Forces Rotating
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Is Your Induction Solution for Rotating Spheres Valid?
Let ##(r,\phi, \theta)## be the radial, polar and azimuthal coordinates respectively. As ##\vec{B}## is confined to ##xz## plane such that ##\theta = \alpha## I assumed ##\vec{B}## on the surface of shell to be ##\vec{B} = a\sin(\alpha) \hat x + \cos(\alpha) \hat z \tag{1}## Surface area...- Nirmal Padwal
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- Electrodyanmics Induction Rotating Spheres
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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Mass attached to a rotating spring
a) Our force can be represented as: $$\vec F= -k(r-H) \hat r$$ then the equations of motion are: $$\hat r: \ddot r -r {\dot{\theta}}^2=-\frac{k}{m_1}(r-H)$$ $$\hat{\theta}: r \ddot{\theta} + 2 \dot r \dot{\theta}=0$$ Plus we know that angular momentum is constant then $$|\vec L|=m r^2...- Santilopez10
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- Dynamic Mass Rotating Spring
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Jumping up on a rotating Earth
Hello, I know it suppose to be a relatively basic question but still somehow I can't fully understand it. Let assume that a man jumps vertically on the equator, while the Earth is of course rotating. What will happen to the value of his linear momentum in the horizontal axis? It seems to me...- Guywithquestions
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- Earth Rotating
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- Forum: Mechanics
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Calculating Torque for Rotating Wheels: Factors to Consider
Say I have a motor connected to a wheel, the wheel is driven forward. The motor produces a certain torque rotate/turn the wheel right or left, how do I calculate the torque needed to rotate? keep in mind the friction between the surfaces, the mass of the wheel and the tire sag/subsidence due to... -
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Proving Vorticity of Flow in Rotating Cylinder
Can someone check if my answer is correct please? Question: If liquid contained within a finite closed circular cylinder rotates about the axis k of the cylinder prove that the equation of continuity and boundary conditions are satisfied by u = ΩxR where Ω = Ωk is the constant angular velocity...- Raees
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- Cylinder Flow Rotating Vorticity
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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Rotating and tilting charged disk induces a voltage inside a ring
As I`` m learning for an upcoming exam I found an electrodynamics problem I struggle with. In the first task I need to calculate the magnetic dipole moment of a uniformly charged,thin disk with the Radius R and a total charge Q which rotates with a angular speed omega round its symmetry axis...- Knut
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- Charged Disk Electrodynamics Ring Rotating Voltage
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I Speed of Light Paradox: Neutron Star Rotation Rate
Sorry if this is a stupid question but I couldn't find an answer anywhere. According to 2 scientific papers, the neutron star PSR J1748-2446ad has a rotation rate of 716Hz, which equates to a linear surface speed of 0.24c. What if this star was originally rotating, let's say, 5 times (or more)...- jflies
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- Body Light Paradox Rotating Speed Speed of light
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Tension in a rotating rod at various places
(The answer given in the text says ##\boxed{T_1\; >\; T_2}## but, as I show below, I think it's just the opposite). I begin by putting an image relevant to the problem above. Taking a small particle each of the same mass ##m## at the two positions, the centripetal forces are ##T_1 =...- brotherbobby
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- Centripetal force Rod Rotating Rotation Tension
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Finding the angular velocity of a rotating arm
A) The slider experiments three forces, all of them are on the ##x## axis (considering ##x## axis as the axis aligned with the arm): Normal force (exerted by the support), elastic force and centrifugal force, which is ##m.(\omega^2 r)## Elastic force is equal to ##Fe=-k \delta =-2 (R-2R)=2R##...- Like Tony Stark
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- Angular Angular velocity Arm Dynamics Rotating Velocity
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Rotating a given vector about an axis
The sketch above shows the situation of the problem. Clearly, as the rotation is taking place in the ##y-z## plane, the x-components of the two vectors remain unchanged : ##A_x = B_x##. Let the projection of the vector ##\vec B## on to the y-z plane be vector ##(\vec B)_{yz} = B_y \hat y + B_z...- brotherbobby
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- Axis Rotating Vector
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Rotating cylinder rolling without slipping in a B field
Firstly, I need to determine what the electric field is causing. Using left hand rule, the force due to the field is acting down the slope. Hence my FBD looks like: Where the two arrows pointing towards the right represent the force due to the field and weight of the cylinder. Since ...- jisbon
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- B field Cylinder Field Rolling Rolling without slipping Rotating Slipping
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Rotating planet moving through space
Its velocity, Vp, is towards some other part of the universe, It rotates in the same plane as its direction of travel. The linear velocity of an object on the surface of the planet relative to the centre is Vr. That means the object's total linear velocity is Vp+Vr when it's at one point in its... -
I Observing a rotating body when approaching it at near light speed
Summary: Will the motion around us become faster when we travel faster? When we approach a body rotating on its axis with certain speed v, will we see the body rotating in speed slightly more than the v during our motion ?And what happens assuming that we are approaching the same body in speed...- Meruem
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- Body Light Light speed Rotating Speed
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Particle moving in a rotating disc
Well, I tried plugging the data in the formula. I know that ##\vec a_b = 0; \vec \omega=3 rad/s ; \vec r## can be calculated using trigonometry. Then I also know that ##v_{relx}= 10 cm/s##, ##a_{relx}=15 cm/s^2##, ##\vec {\dot{\omega}}=-10 rad/s^2##. But how do I get ##v_{rely}## and...- Like Tony Stark
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- Disc Particle Relative motion Rotating Rotating disc Rotational mecahnics
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I Two rings rotating about a common center
Problem statement: Two rings rotate with equal and opposite angular (relativistic) velocity about a common center. Matt rides on one ring and Eve on the other and there's a moment they meet and their clocks agree. At the moment they pass by one another, each asserts that is the other's clock...- JD_PM
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- Center Rings Rotating
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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EMF induced in an off-axis solenoid due to a rotating magnet
The red arrows correspond to the areas the solenoid will be moved too- Cactus
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- Emf Induced Magnet Rotating Solenoid
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Relative rotational motion on a disc
The first doubt that comes to my mind is "I have to determine the acceleration with respect to what?", because the problem doesn't tell. Then, I have some problems when having to plug the data in the formula of acceleration. ##\vec a_B=0## because the origin isn't accelerated, ##\vec{\dot...- Like Tony Stark
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- Disc Kinematic Motion Relative Relative motion Rotating Rotational Rotational motion
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help