Angular Acceleration. Im totally lost

[beanieb]

Homework Statement

A computer disk is turned on starting from rest and has constant anglular acceleration. If it took 0.570s for the drive to make its second complete revolution, how long did it take to make the first complete revolution? Also what is its angular acceleration

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[Hootenanny]

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[beanieb]

Well I know the inital velocity is zero (starting from rest) and the time is given. Converting 2 revs to rads is 12.57. So it completes 12.57 rads in 0.570s. I am also aware that ang accel = ang vel/time. I am just going around in circles trying to work it out. I was fairly sure it was wrong to assume speed is 22rad/s. (12.57/.570). Sorry if that's not enough but I am totally lost. First post so I wasnt sure what to put up

 

[LowlyPion]

Well I know the inital velocity is zero (starting from rest) and the time is given. Converting 2 revs to rads is 12.57. So it completes 12.57 rads in 0.570s. I am also aware that ang accel = ang vel/time. I am just going around in circles trying to work it out. I was fairly sure it was wrong to assume speed is 22rad/s. (12.57/.570). Sorry if that's not enough but I am totally lost. First post so I wasnt sure what to put up

Angular calculations are pretty much the same as linear. Recall then that:

x = 1/2*a*t²

In your case use x as radians and solve for a.

Armed with a (which is your angular acceleration by the way) solve for t at half the distance - which is one revolution.