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Describing Rolling Constraint for Rolling Disk With No Slipping
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[QUOTE="theshape89, post: 6827118, member: 728369"] [B]Homework Statement:[/B] A disk rolls without slipping across a horizontal plane. The plane of the disk remains vertical, but it is free to rotate about a vertical axis. What generalized coordinates may be used to describe the motion? Write a differential equation describing the rolling constraint. I've attached a picture below. [B]Relevant Equations:[/B] Let ##\omega## be the angular velocity of a point on the edge of the disk and ##r## the radius of the disk. Then ##v_{tangential}=\omega r##. Let ##R=\sqrt{x^{2} + y^{2}}##. Then \begin{align}v_{tangential}&=\frac{dR}{dt} \nonumber\\ &=\frac{dR}{dx}\frac{dy}{dt} + \frac{dR}{dy}\frac{dy}{dt} \nonumber\\ &=\frac{x}{R}\frac{dx}{dt} + \frac{y}{R}\frac{dy}{dt} \nonumber\\ &= cos\phi \frac{dx}{dt} + sin\phi \frac{dy}{dt}.\nonumber \end{align} Using ##v_{tangential}=\omega r## [CENTER]##cos\phi \frac{dx}{dt} + sin\phi \frac{dy}{dt} = \frac{d\theta}{dt}r##[/CENTER] or [CENTER]##cos\phi dx+ sin\phi dy= d\theta r##[/CENTER] I'm supposed to end up with \begin{align}cos\phi dx+ sin\phi dy &= d\theta r\end{align} and \begin{align}\frac{dy}{dx}=tan\phi\end{align}. But I'm not sure how to get (2). If I differentiate (1) w.r.t. ##x## and if the terms with ##\frac{d\phi}{dx}## disappear, I'm still left with ##cos\phi + sin\phi \frac{dy}{dx}=0##, which won't get me to (2). [/QUOTE]
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