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Section: Prob. Set 2.__

1. Given:
Required to find:
Solution:

Problem Set 2.1

1. (a) What angle in radians is subtended by an arc 1.50m long on the circumference of a circle of
radius 2.50m? What is this angle in degrees? (b) An arc 14.0cm long on the circumference of a
circle subtends an angle of 128°. What is the radius of the circle?

2. Designing an electric fan. When your electric fan is turned off, its angular velocity decreases
uniformly from 500 rev/min to 200 rev/min in 4.00 s. (a) What was the motor’s angular acceleration
in rad/s2 and the number of revolutions made in the 4.00s interval? (b) How many more seconds
are required for your fan to come to rest if the angular acceleration remains constant at the value
you calculated in part a?

3. Do not touch the rotating centrifuge. A centrifuge rotor is accelerated from rest to 20,000rpm in
30s. (a) Through how many revolutions has the centrifuge turned during its accelerating period
(assuming constant angular acceleration)? (b) How fast (in rpm) must the centrifuge be rotating if
a particle 7.0cm from the axis of rotation is to experience a centripetal acceleration of 100,000 g’s?

Problem Set 2.2

1. A 15.0N force (represented FT) is applied to a cord wrapped a

pulley of mass M=4.00kg and radius R=33.0cm. The pulley
accelerates uniformly from rest to an angular speed of 30.0
rad/s in 3.00s. If there is a frictional torque, 𝜏𝑓𝑟 = 1.10𝑁𝑚 at
the axle, determine the moment of inertia of the pulley. The
pulley rotates about its center.
 2. A small 650g ball on the end of a thin, light rod is rotated in a horizontal circle of radius
1.2m. Calculate (a) the moment of inertia of the ball about the center of the circle, and (b)
the torque needed to keep the ball rotating at a constant angular velocity if air resistance
exerts a force of 0.020N on the ball. Ignore the rod’s moment of inertia and air resistance.

3. To get a flat, uniform cylindrical satellite spinning at the

correct rate, engineers fire four tangential rockets (see figure).
(a) If the satellite has a mass of 3600kg and a radius of 4.0m,
what is the required steady force of each rocket if the satellite
is to reach 32rpm in 5.0min? (b) As seen on this plane, what is
the direction of the net torque?

Problem Set 2.3

1. Demonstrating 𝐿. A person stands, hands at his side, on a

platform that is rotating at a rate of 1.30rev/s. If he raises his
arms to a horizontal position, the speed of rotation decreases
to 0.80rev/s. (a) Why did this happen? Explain in not more
than 2 sentences. You can also use variables and the
relationship between them. (b) By what factor (or by how
much) has his moment of inertia changed? (c) What is the
direction of the person’s 𝐿, top view?

2. Sun-Earth SYSTEM. Determine the angular momentum of the Earth (a) about its axis of
rotation (assuming the Earth is a uniform sphere), and (b) in its orbit around the sun (treat
the Earth as a particle orbiting the Sun). The mass of the Earth is 6.0x1024kg and its radius
is 6.4x106m, and is 1.5x108km from the Sun.

3. Work, Energy, and Power in rotational motion. An electric motor exerts a constant torque
of 10Nm on a grindstone mounted on its shaft. The moment of inertia of the grindstone
about the shaft is 2.0kgm2. If the system starts from rest, (a) find the work done by the
motor in 8.0 seconds and the kinetic energy at the end of this time. (b) What was the power
delivered by the motor?
Problem Set 2.4

1. A bottle has a mass of 35.00g when empty and 98.44g when filled with water. When filled
with another fluid, the mass is 88.78g. What is the specific gravity of the fluid? What is the
density of the fluid?

2. There is a maximum depth at which a diver can breathe through a snorkel

tube because the pressure difference tends to collapse the diver’s lungs.
What is the external-internal pressure difference when the diver’s lungs are
at a depth of 6.1m (about 20ft)? Assume that the diver is in freshwater.

3. For the hydraulic lift shown, what must be

the ratio of the diameter of the vessel at the car to the
diameter of the vessel where the force 𝐹1 is applied so
that a 1520kg car can be lifted with a force of just 125N.
Problem Set 2.5

1. A 40.0cm (cylindrical) log is floating vertically in the water. Determine the length of the log
𝑔 𝑘𝑔
that extends above the water line. The density of the wood is 0.600 𝑐𝑚3. 𝜌𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 = 1000 𝑚3 ;
𝑉𝑐𝑦𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 = 𝜋𝑟 2 ℎ

𝑘𝑔
2. A wooden raft has a density of 0.500 × 103 𝑚3 and dimensions of 3.05𝑚 × 6.10𝑚 ×
0.305𝑚. a) How deep does it sink into the water when unloaded? b) What is the maximum
number of 70kg people can the raft carry before it sinks?

3. A ring weighs 6.327 × 10−3 𝑁

in air and 6.033 × 10−3 𝑁
when submerged in water. a)
What is the volume of the ring?
b) What is the density of the
ring? c) What do you think is
the ring made of?

Problem Set 2.6

1. A shower head has 20 circular rings each with radius 1.0mm. The shower head is connected to
𝑚
a pipe with radius 0.80cm. If the speed of the water in the pipe is 3.0 𝑠 , what is its speed as it
exits the shower-head openings?

2. Lift on an airplane. Air streams horizontally past a small airplane’s wings such that the speed
𝑚 𝑚
is 70 over the top surface and 60 past the bottom surface. If the plane has a wing area of
𝑠 𝑠
16.2𝑚2 on the top and on the bottom, what is the net vertical force that the air exerts on the
𝑘𝑔
airplane? 𝜌𝑎𝑖𝑟 = 1.20 𝑚3

3. A soft drink (mostly water) flows in a pipe at a beverage plant with a mass flow rate that would
fill 220 0.355-L cans per minute. At point 2 in the pipe, the pressure is 152kPa and the cross-
sectional area is 8. 00𝑐𝑚2 . At point 1, 1.35m above point 2, the cross-sectional area is
2.00𝑐𝑚2 . Find the (a) mass flow rate; (b) volume flow rate; (c) flow speeds at points 1 and 2;
(d) pressure at point 1.
Problem Set 2.7

1. An automobile cooling system holds 16L of water. How much heat does it absorb if its
temperature rises from 20℃ to 90℃?
2. The cup cools the tea. If 0.20kg of tea at 95 °C is poured into a glass cup, 0.25kg, initially at
25 °C, what will be the common final temperature of the tea and the cup? Specific heat capacity
of the cup is 840J/kgK and of the tea is 4186J/kgK
3. A cube of ice is taken from the freezer at -8.5°C and placed in a 95g aluminum calorimeter
filled with 310g of water at room temperature of 20.0°C. The final situation is observed to be
all water at 17.0°C. What was the mass of the ice cube?

Problem Set 2.8

1. A gas enclosed in a cylinder fitted with a light frictionless piston and maintained at atmospheric
pressure. When 1400kCal of heat is added to the gas, the volume is observed to increase slowly
from 12.0𝑚3 to 18.2𝑚3 . Calculate the (a) work done by the gas and, (b) the change in internal
energy of the gas.
2. A heat engine exhausts 8200J of heat while performing 3200J of useful work. What is the
efficiency of this engine?
3. A restaurant refrigerator has a coefficient of performance of 5.0. If the temperature in the
kitchen outside the refrigerator is 29°C, what is the lowest temperature that could be obtained
inside the refrigerator if it were ideal?