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This document contains a tutorial for PH1010 Physics I at IIT Madras, focusing on various physics problems involving Lagrangian mechanics. It includes problems related to a rotating rod with a bead, a double Atwood machine, a pendulum on a cart, a rotating wire hoop with a bead, and a mass sliding on a table connected to a hanging mass. Each problem requires setting up the Lagrangian and solving for motion or oscillation characteristics.

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Tutorial 7

This document contains a tutorial for PH1010 Physics I at IIT Madras, focusing on various physics problems involving Lagrangian mechanics. It includes problems related to a rotating rod with a bead, a double Atwood machine, a pendulum on a cart, a rotating wire hoop with a bead, and a mass sliding on a table connected to a hanging mass. Each problem requires setting up the Lagrangian and solving for motion or oscillation characteristics.

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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MADRAS

PH1010 Physics I Tutorial 7 September 2024

1. The center of a long frictionless rod is pivoted


at the origin, and the rod is forced to rotate in
a horizontal plane with constant angular veloc-
ity ω. Write down the Lagrangian for a bead
threaded on the rod, using r as your generalized
coordinate, where r, ϕ are the polar coordinates
of the bead. (Notice that ϕ is not an indepen-
dent varianble as it is fixed by the rotation of the
rod to be ϕ = ωt.) Solve Lagrange’s equation for
r(t). What happens if the bead is released from
any point r0 > 0.

2. Consider a double Atwood machine constructed


as shown on the right: A mass 4m is suspended
from a string that passes over a massless pul-
ley on frictionless bearings. The other end of
this string supports a second similar pulley, over
which passes a second string supporting a mass
of 3m at one end and m at the other. Using
two suitable generalized coordinates, set up the
Lagrangian and use the Lagrange equations to
find the acceleration of the mass 4m when the
system is released.

3. A simple pendulum (mass M and length L) is


suspended from a cart (mass m) that can oscil-
late on the end of a spring of force constant k,
as shown in the figure. Write the Lagrangian in
terms of the two generalized coordinates x and
ϕ, where x is the extension of the spring from
its equilibrium length. Find the two Lagrange
equations. Simplify the equations to the case
that both x and ϕ are small.

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4. The figure at the right is a bird’s-eye view of
a smooth horizontal wire hoop that is forced to
rotate at a fixed angular velocity ω about a ver-
tical axis through point A. A bead of mass m is
threaded on the hoop and is free to move around
it, with its position specified by the angle ϕ that
it makes at the center with the diameter AB.
Find the Lagrangian for this system using ϕ as
your generalized coordinate. Use this to show
that the bead oscillates about point B exactly
like a simple pendulum. What is the frequency
of these oscillations if the amplitude is small?

5. A mass m is free to slide on a frictionless ta-


ble and is connected, via a string that passes
through a hole in the table, to a mass M that
hangs below as shown in the adjoining figure.
Assume that M moves in a vertical line only,
and assume that the string always remains taut.
(a) Find the equations of motion for the vari-
ables r and θ shown in the figure.
(b) Under what condition does m undergo cir-
cular motion?
(c) What is the frequency of small oscillations
(in the variable r) about this circular mo-
tion?

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