When to use term Rotational motion and Circular motion?

[abhijitlohiya]

Some times it becomes very difficult to differenciate between Circular motion and Rotational motion.Can anyone tell me to understand clearcut diff. between the two?

 

[Meir Achuz]

Rotational motion refers to an object rotating about an axis, like the daily rotation of the Earth. Circular motion if the motion of an object in a circular path, like the Earth traveling about the Sun each year.

 

[vaishakh]

In circular motion, the body rotates with respect to a point outside the body. But in rotational motion, the body rotates to a point on the body.
Each particle on the body undergo circular motion in a rotational motion.