A2讲义习题 (46) -Equilibrium of a rigid body under coplanar forces
A2讲义习题 (46) -Equilibrium of a rigid body under coplanar forces
A2讲义习题 (46) -Equilibrium of a rigid body under coplanar forces
1. When you mend a bicycle, you can turn it upside down so that it rests on the saddle and the
handlebars. Suppose that you then spin the front wheel round so that it rotates with angular
speed 10 rad s-1. If the rim has mass 1.6kg and radius 0.35 meters, how much kinetic energy
does it have? Find the moment of inertia for the rim of the bicycle wheel, and use this to
calculate the kinetic energy when the wheel rotates at 10 rad s-1.
2. A cheer-leader spins a twirling stick, which consists of a rod 60cm long with a small metal
ball attached at each end. The mass of each ball is 200grams. As a modeling simplification the
balls can be treated as point masses, and the mass of the rod may be neglected.
(a) find the moment of inertia of the twirling stick about its mid-point
(b) find the kinetic energy of the stick if it makes 2 revolutions per second about its mid-point
3. A light square lamina ABCD, whose mass can be neglected, has diagonals of length 1m.
Particles of mass 1kg, 2kg, 3kg, 2kg are attached to the lamina at A, B, C and D respectively.