Kinematics of Circular Motion

1. A particle is moving with a uniform speed ‘v’ on a fixed circular path of radius R. Find the average
velocity and average acceleration in the time interval the particle moves half of the circular path.

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2. A particle moves on a circle of radius m starting from rest with a constant rate of change of speed

dv
 0.04 m/s 2 . Find
dt

(a) the time required to complete first complete round by the particle starting from rest.

(b) magnitude of net acceleration of the particle when it completes its first round.

3. A point starts moving on a circular path of radius ‘R’ with constant angular acceleration ‘α’ starting from
rest. Find the time at which radial acceleration and tangential acceleration of the particle are equal. Also
calculate the distance travelled by the particle during this interval of time.

4. A Point moves along a circle with a speed v = at, where, a = 0.50 m/s2. Find the total acceleration of the
point at the moment when it covered the nth (n = 0.10) fraction of the circle after the beginning of the
motion.

5. A point moves with deceleration along the circle of radius R so that at any moment of time its tangential
and normal acceleration are equal in moduli. At the initial moment t = 0, the velocity of the point equals
vo. Find;

(a) The speed of the point as a function of time and as a function of distance covered ‘s’.

(b) The total acceleration of the point as a function of velocity and the distance covered.

6. A point moves along an arc of a circle of radius R. Its speed depends on the distance covered ‘s’ as
v  a s , where a is a constant. Find the angle α between the vector of the total acceleration and the
vector of velocity as a function of ‘s’.

7. A particle moves along an arc of a circle of radius R according to the law l  a sin t , where l is the
displacement from the initial position measured along the arc, and a and ω are constants. Assuming R =
1.00 m, and a = 0.80 m, and ω = 2.00 rad/s, find:

(a) the magnitude of the total acceleration of the particle at the points l = 0 and l   a ;

(b) the minimum value of the total acceleration and the corresponding displacement.

8. A particle A moves along a circle of radius R = 50 cm so that its radius vector ‘r’
relative to the point O rotates with the constant angular velocity ω = 0.40
rad/s. Find the modulus of the velocity of the particle, and the modulus and
direction of its total acceleration.
9. A wheel rotates about a stationary axis so that the rotation angle φ = at2, where a = 0.20 rad/s. Find the
total acceleration ‘w’ of the point A at the rim at the moment t = 2.5 s if the linear speed of the point A
at this moment is v = 0.65 m/s.

10. A shell acquires the initial velocity v = 320 m/s, having made n = 2.0 turns inside the barrel whose length
is equal to 2.0 m. Assuming that the shell moves inside the barrel with a uniform tangential acceleration,
find the angular velocity of its axial rotation at the moment when the shell escapes the barrel.

11. A solid body rotates about a stationary axis according to the law φ = at – bt2, where a = 6.0 rad/s and b =
2.0 rad/s2. Find;

(a) the mean values of the angular velocity and angular acceleration averaged over the time interval
between t = 0 and the complete stop;

(b) The angular acceleration at the moment the body stops.

12. A solid body starts rotating about a stationary axis with an angular acceleration β = at, where a =
2.0 102 rad/s2. How soon after the beginning of the rotation will the total acceleration vector of an
arbitrary point of the body form an angle α = 60o with its velocity vector?

13. A solid body rotates with deceleration about a stationary axis with an angular deceleration β = k ω ,
where ω is its angular velocity. Find the average angular velocity of the body averaged over the whole
time of rotation if at the initial moment of time its angular velocity was equal to ωo.

14. A solid body rotates about the stationary axis so that is angular velocity depends on the rotation angle φ
as ω = ωo – aφ, where ωo and a are positive constants. At the moment t = 0, the angle φ = 0. Find the
time dependence of

(a) the rotation angle

(b) the angular velocity.

15. A solid body starts rotating about a stationary axis with an angular acceleration β = βo cosφ, where βo is
a constant vector and φ is an angle of rotation from the initial position. Find the angular velocity of the
body as a function of the angle φ. Draw the plot of this dependence.

ANSWER KEY

1. 2v/π, 2v2/πR 2. (a) 10 s, (b) 0.5 m/s2 1 4. 0.8 m/s2

3. , R/2
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5. (a) v  vo e  s / R 6. tan α = 2s/R 7. (a) 2.6 m/s2, 3.2 m/s2 8. 0.4 m/s

(b) 2.5 m/s2,  0.37 m 0.32 m/s2

(b) a  2v 2 / R

9. 0.7 m/s2 10. 2.0 103 rad/s 11. (a) 4 rad/s, 6 rad/s2 12. 7 sec

(b) 12.4 rad/s

13. ωo/3  
14. (a)   1- e - at o / a 15.  z   2  o sin 

(b)   o e  at