Unit 5

Unit-5
Motion of system of particles and Rigid bodies

1. A ladder is resting with one end on a vertical wall and the other end on horizontal
flour. Is it more likely to slip when a man stands near the bottom or near the top?
2. A stone of mass ‘m’ tied to a string of length ‘r’ is rotating along a circular path with
constant speed v, what is the torque on the stone?
3. How will you distinguish between a hard-boiled egg and a raw egg by spinning each
on table top?
4. Name the physical quantity which has unit ‘Joule-sec’.
5. Why are there two propellers in a helicopter?
6. Why are spokes fitted in a cycle wheel?
7. If earth contracts to half its radius, what would be the length of a day?
8. A ring and a disc have the same mass and radius. Find the ratio of their moment of
inertia about their axis.
9. What is the moment of inertia of a disc of mass m and radius r about a line parallel to
the axis of disc but lying near the boundary of it?
10. What is the moment of inertia of a uniform semi-circular wire of mass M and radius R
about a line perpendicular to the plane of the wire through the centre?
11. A solid spherical ball (MI = 2/5 mr2) rolls on a table. What is the ration of rotational
KE to the total kinetic energy?
12. Three particles of equal mass are located at the corners of an equilateral triangle.
Locate the centre of mass.
13. Which other physical quantity has same dimensions as that of torque? [work]
14. What is rotational inertia? Explain it.
15. A solid and a hollow cylinder are allowed to roll down an inclined plane without
slipping. If they have equal mass and radius which will reach the ground earlier and
with higher speed. Explain the reason.
16. Three mass points m1, m2 and m3 are located at the vertices of an equilateral triangle
of length ‘a’. What is the moment of inertia of the system about an axis along the
altitude of the triangle passing through m1?
17. A flywheel gains a speed of 540 rpm in 6 second. Find its angular acceleration.
18. Two rings have their moment of inertia in the ratio 2 : 1 and their diameters are in the
ratio 2 : 1. Find their ratio of masses.
19. The distance between the centre of carbon and oxygen is 0.12mm. Find the
20. distance of the centre of mass of the molecule from the carbon atom.
21. If no external torque acts on a body. Will its angular velocity remain conserved? Why
or why not?
22. What is the power needed to maintain uniform circular motion? Justify your answer.
23. A man is standing on a rotating table with his arms outstretched and holding heavy
dumbbells in each hand. How can he increase his speed without using external
torque?
24. What is the moment of inertia of a uniform circular ring about a tangent in the plane
of the ring?
25. A point on the rim of a wheel 2.5 meter in diameter has a linear velocity of 15 m/s.
26. Find the angular velocity of the wheel.
27. Moment of inertia of a solid sphere is (2/5)MR2, What is its radius of gyration.
28. A child sits stationary at one end of a long trolley moving uniformly with a speed V on
a smooth horizontal floor. If the child gets up and runs about on the trolley in any
manner, what is the speed of the CM of the (trolley + child) system?
29. A solid cylinder of mass 20 kg rotates about its axis with angular speed 100rad/s.
The radius of the cylinder is 0.25 m. What is the kinetic energy associated with the
rotation of the cylinder? What is the magnitude of angular momentum of the cylinder
about its axis?
30. (i) A child stands at the center of a turntable with his two arms outstretched. The
turntable is set rotation with an angular speed of 40 rev/min. How much is the
angular speed of the child if he folds his hands back and thereby reduces his
moment of inertia to 2/5 times the initial value? Assume that the turntable rotates
without friction.
(ii) Show that the child’s new kinetic energy of rotation is more than the initial kinetic
energy of rotation. How do you account for this increase in kinetic energy?
31. Rope of negligible mass is wound round a hollow cylinder of mass 3 kg and radius
40 cm. What is the angular acceleration of the cylinder if the rope is pulled with a
force of 30 N? What is the linear acceleration of the rope? Assume that there is no
slipping.
32. A cylinder of mass 5 kg and radius 30 cm, and free to rotate about its axis, receives
an angular impulse of 3 kg m2 s-1 initially followed by a similar impulse after 4 s. what
is the angular speed of the cylinder 30 s after the initial impulse? The cylinder is at
rest initially.
33. Two discs of moments of inertia I1 and I2 about their respective axes (normal to the
disc and passing through the center), and rotating with angular speeds ω1 and ω2 are
brought into contact face to face with their axes of rotation coincident.
i) What is the angular speed of the two-disc system?
ii) Show that the kinetic energy of the combined system is less than the sum of
the initial kinetic energies of the two discs. How do you account for this loss in
energy? Take ω 1 ≠ ω 2
34. A ring, a disc and a sphere, all of the same radius and mass, roll down on an inclined
plane from the same height h, which of the three reaches the bottom (i) first, (ii) last?
35. A flywheel originally at rest is to reach an angular velocity of 36 radian s– 1 in 6
second. What constant angular acceleration it must have? What total angle does it
turn in the 6sec?
36. A mass of 4 kg is located at x1 = 0 m; y1 = 0; and a mass of 6kg is located at x2 = 5m,
y2 = 4m; where should one place a third mass of 8 kg to have centre of mass at
x=2m, y=2m?
37. Three particles of masses 3kg. 4kg and 5kg are located on the corners of an
equilateral triangle of side 1m. Locate centre of mass w.r.t. 3kg?
38. The motor of an engine is rotating about an axis with an angular velocity of 100 rpm.
It comes to rest in 15 sec, after being switched off. Assuming constant angular
deceleration, calculate the number of revolutions made by it before coming to rest.
39. Two small kids 10kg and 15 kg are trying to balance a see–saw of total length 5.0m,
with the fulcrum at the centre. If one of the kids is sitting at one end, where should
the other sit.
40. Two identical uniform roads AB and CD, each of length L are joined to form a T
shaped frame as shown on figure. Locate the centre of mass of the frame.
41. Find the centre of mass of metallic letter L of uniform mass density which is 4cm
broad everywhere.
42. The energy of 968J is spent in increasing the speed of a flywheel from 60 rpm to 360
rpm. Calculate moment of inertia of flywheel.
43. Calculate angular velocity in rad/sec of a particle which makes 300 revolutions/min.
What is the linear velocity if the radius is 4 m?
44. A meter stick is held vertically with one end rough horizontal plane. Assuming that
the end at the floor does not strip find the angular speed of the rod when it hits the
floor.
45. A solid cylinder of radius R and mass M is capable of rotating freely without friction
about its axis of symmetry. A string of negligible mass is wrapped around the
cylinder and a heavy point mass m is suspended from the free end. Find the linear
acceleration of the point mass m as soon as it is released. Also find an expression
for the tension in the string.

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