1. The Ferris wheel starts from rest and reaches an angular velocity of 1.5 9.
9. A centrifuge rotor is accelerated from rest to 20 000 rpm in 30 s. (i) What is
rad/s over a 10 s period under the constant angular acceleration.
(i) Find the angular acceleration of Ferris wheel.
(ii) How many revolutions does it make during 10 s?
2. A ball is whirled with constant angular acceleration. From rest, it attains an
angular velocity of 25 rad/s after traversing an angular displacement of 41
rad. What is angular acceleration of the ball?
3. A boy steps on a merry-go-round which has a radius of 5m and is at rest.
It starts accelerating at a constant rate up to an angular velocity of 5 rad/s
in 20s. What is the distance traversed by the boy?
4. The wheel of a car with radius 20 cm starts moving. The angular
acceleration provided by the engine is 12 rad s-². What is the tangential
acceleration of rim of the wheel?
5. The platter of the hard drive of a computer uniformly rotates at 7200 rpm. If
the reading head of the drive is located 3 cm from the rotational axis, what
is the linear speed and centripetal acceleration of the point on the platter
just below the reading head? If a single bit requires 0.5 µm of length along
the direction of motion, how many bits per second can the writing head
write when it is 3 cm from the axis?
6. CA centrifuge has a radius of 20 cm and decelerates from a maximum
rotational rate of 7.2 × 103 rpm to rest in 30 s under a constant angular
acceleration. It is rotating counter clockwise. What is the magnitude of the
resultant acceleration of a point at the tip of the centrifuge at 10 s? What is
the direction of the resultant acceleration vector?
7. A stone tied to a string is moving in a circle of radius 1.5 m at a constant
speed 8 m s-¹. Calculate the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration of
the stone.
8. . The angular velocity of a rotating rigid body increases from 500 rpm to
1500 rpm in 2 min. (i) What is the angular acceleration of the body? (ii)
What angle does it turn through in this 2 min?
its average angular acceleration? (ii) Through how many revolutions has
the centrifuge rotor turned during its acceleration period, assuming
constant angular acceleration?
10. A figure skater is spinning with an angular velocity of 15 rad s¹. She then
comes to a stop over a brief period of time. During this time, her angular
displacement is 5.1 rad. Assuming constant angular acceleration, find (i)
her angular acceleration and (ii) the time during which she comes to rest.
11. A tire has a radius of 0.33 m, and its center moves forward with a linear
speed of 15 m s-¹. (i) What is angular velocity of the wheel? (ii) Relative to
the axle, what is linear speed of a point located 0.175 m from the axle?
12. A child spins a toy top, applying a force to the peg in the middle. The force
applied results a tangential acceleration of the peg. If the radius of the peg
is 0.5 cm and the tangential acceleration applied is 0.54 m/s2, what is the
angular acceleration of the top?
13. A 150 g ball at the end of a string is revolving uniformly in a horizontal
circle of radius 0.6 m. The ball makes 2 revolutions in a second. What is its
centripetal acceleration?
14. A carousel is initially at rest. It is given a constant angular acceleration
0.06 rad s 2, 52, which s, determine the magnitude of the following
increases its angular velocity for 8 s. At t = 8 quantities: (i) the angular
velocity of the carousel, (ii) the linear velocity of a child located 2.5 m from
the center, (iii) the tangential acceleration of that child, (iv) the centripetal
acceleration of the child, and (v) the total linear acceleration of the child.
15. An airplane propeller slows from an initial angular speed of 12.5 rev/s to a
final angular speed 15 of 5 rev/s. During this process, the propeller rotates
through 21 rev. What is the angular acceleration of the propeller in rad s 2
and the time taken?
16. The diameter of the bicycle wheels is 70 cm and the speed angular speed
of the wheels.
17. The tires on a new car have a diameter of 2 ft and are warranted for 60
000 miles. How many revolutions will the tire make while under warranty?

18. What is the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration of a car following a

curve of radius 500 (18) m at a speed of 25 m/s? Compare this
acceleration due to gravity.

19. What is the angular speed of the second hand of a clock?

20. A racing car travels on a circular track of radius 250 m. Assuming the car
moves with a constant speed of 4 m/s, find (i) It’s angular speed and (ii)
the magnitude and direction of its acceleration.

21. A wheel rotates with a constant angular acceleration of 3.5 rad/s2. If the
angular speed of the wheel is 2.5 rad/s at t=0. (i) What is the angular
speed of the wheel at t=2s. (ii) What angular displacement does the wheel
rotate in 2s? (iii) How many revolutions has the wheel turned during this
time interval?

22. A grindstone increases in angular speed from 4 rad/s to 12 rad/s in 4s.

Through what angle does it turn during that time interval if the angular
acceleration in constant?