ASTER PUBLIC SCHOOL GREATER NOIDA WEST
PHYSICS WORKSHEET-3
CH-7 ROTATIONAL MOTION
1) Two masses m1 and m2 start moving towards each other due to their mutual force of attraction. What will be
the change in their respective center of mass position?
2) What is the S.I. unit of angular momentum?
3) Is radius of gyration of a body a constant quantity?
4) A child starts running from one end to another end of a trolley which is moving with uniform speed V on a
smooth horizontal floor. What is the speed of the C.M. of the (trolley+ child) system?
5) Find the moment of inertia of a solid sphere about a tangent to the sphere.
6) Prove that the torque experienced by a particle is equal to the product of its moment of inertia and angular
acceleration.
7) Find the moment of inertia of a rod of length l about an axis passing through its mid point and perpendicular to
it?
8) A man of mass m1 is standing on a platform of mass m2 kept on a smooth horizontal surface. The man starts
moving on the platform with a velocity Vr relative to the platform. Find the recoil velocity of the platform.
9) A particle traverses its circular path as = 2t2 + t where, is the angle made at the center in radian and t is time in
seconds. Find (a) angular displacement at t = 2 s (b) angular velocity at t = 2 s (c) angular acceleration (d)
tangential acceleration at t = 1s if radius of circle is 5 m.
10)Where is the center of mass of a uniform cube located?
11) A solid sphere and a hollow sphere having same density and radius are rolling down an inclined plane. Which
one of them will reach first?
12) Where is the center of mass of a system of two particles is situated?
13) In which situation, center of mass has no acceleration?
14) A solid cylinder of mass 20 kg rotates on its axis with angular speed 100 rad [Link] 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?
15)A rope of negligible mass is wound over a hollow cylinder of mass 4 kg and radius 27 cm. What is the angular
acceleration of the cylinder if the rope is pulled with a force of 30N? What is the linear acceleration of the rope?
16)What do you mean by conservation of linear momentum?
17)A bullet of mass 50 g and speed 500 m/sec gets embedded exactly at the center of the door. If the door is 1 m
wide and weighs 12 kg, find the angular speed of the door just after the bullet embedded into it?
18)A uniform chain of length 3 m is kept on a table such that a length of 40 cm hangs freely from the edge of the
table. The total mass of the chain is 4 kg. What is the work done in pulling the entire chain on the table?
19)A wheel is resting about its axis (fixed).A constant force of 10 N is applied tangentially to the wheel. Find the
angular displacement made after one second. Also find angular speed after one revolution. Mass of the wheel is
10 kg and radius is 0.5 m
20)Why an ice skater or a ballet dancer does sometimes stretches their hands and sometimes brings them closer to
the body while performing their routines?
21)If angular momentum is conserved in a system whose moment of inertia is decreased, will its rotational kinetic
energy be also conserved?
22)Two circular discs A and B of the same mass and same thickness are made of two different metals whose
densities are dA and dB (dA>dB). Their moments of inertia about the axes passing through their centers of
gravity and perpendicular to their planes are IA and IB. Which is greater; IA or IB?
23)Torques of equal magnitude is applied to hollow cylinder and a solid sphere, both having the same mass and
radius. The cylinder is free to rotate about its standard axis of symmetry and the sphere is free to rotate about
an axis passing through its center. What is the ratio of their angular acceleration?
24)A ring, a disc and a sphere all of the same radius and mass roll down an inclined plane from the same height h.
Which of the three reaches the bottom (i) earliest (ii) latest?
25)A ring, a disc and a sphere all of the same radius and mass roll down an inclined plane from the same height h
without slipping. They start from rest. Which of the three reaches the bottom with maximum velocity?
26)A solid sphere rolls down two different inclined planes of same heights but different angles of inclination. (i) Will
it reach the ground with the same speed in each case? (ii) Will it take longer to roll down one plane than
another? If so, which one and why?
27)What is the moment of inertia of a uniform circular disc and circular ring of radius R and mass M about (i)
Diameter of the disc and ring (ii) An axis passing through a point on its edge and normal to the disc? (iii) A
tangent in the plane of the disc and ring. M.I. about an axis passing through its center and perpendicular to it is
½ MR2 and M R 2.
28)Two particles of mass 2kg and 1kg are moving along the same straight line with speeds of 2m/s and 5m/s
respectively. What is the speed of the center of mass of the system if both the particles are moving (i) in same
direction and (ii) in opposite direction?
29)What will be the duration of the day, if earth suddenly shrinks to 1/64th of its original volume?
30)Energy of 484 J is spent in increasing the speed of a flywheel from 60 to 360 rpm. Calculate MI of Flywheel.
31)A disc of mass 5 kg and radius 50 cm rolls on the ground at the rate of 10m/s. Calculate the K.E. of the disc.
(Given I = ½ MR2).
32)A particle starts rotating from rest according to the formula θ = 3t3 /20 – t2 /3. Calculate the angular Velocity
and angular acceleration after 5 seconds.
33)A spherical ball rolls on a table without slipping. Determine the percentage of its K.E. which is Rotational. M.I. of
sphere = 2/5 MR2.
