What is the Angular Speed of a Pulsar?

[elemnt55]

A pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star that continuously emits a beam of radio waves in a searchlight manner. Each time the pulsar makes one revolution, the rotating beam sweeps across the earth, and the Earth receives a pulse of radio waves. For one particular pulsar, the time between two successive pulses is 0.0336 s. Determine the average angular speed (in rad/s) of this pulsar.

i got w= change in theta / change in time
6369/.0336

 

[dextercioby]

What's 6369...?

Daniel.

 

[scholzie]

Are you at RIT? Physics 312?

 

[Shockwave]

Oh, wow! I'm at RIT in Physics 312. Are we classmates?

 

[elemnt55]

no... OU phys 201

 

[scholzie]

A pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star that continuously emits a beam of radio waves in a searchlight manner. Each time the pulsar makes one revolution, the rotating beam sweeps across the earth, and the Earth receives a pulse of radio waves. For one particular pulsar, the time between two successive pulses is 0.0336 s. Determine the average angular speed (in rad/s) of this pulsar.

i got w= change in theta / change in time
6369/.0336

The rotation between 2 pulses is 1 revolution = 2\pi and the time it takes to make one revolution is \Delta T=0.0336s

\omega=\frac{\Delta \Theta}{\Delta T}=\frac{2\pi}{0.0336 s}

Not sure where you got 6369 from, but the above should give you the right answer.