Rotational Motion AP Physics

 2600 rev/min is equivalent to which of the following?

• 2600 rad/s 
• 43.3 rad/s 
• 273 rad/s
• 60 rad/s

A 0.12-m-radius grinding wheel takes 5.5 s to speed up from 2.0 rad/s to 11.0 rad/s. What is the wheel's average angular acceleration?

• 9.6 rad/s/s
• 4.8 rad/s/s
• 3.1 rad/s/s
• 1.6 rad/s/s

A spool of thread has an average radius of 1.00 cm. If the spool contains 62.8 m of thread, how many turns of thread are on the spool? "Average radius" allows us to not need to treat the layering of threads on lower layers.

• 100

• 1000

• 3140

• 62800

A 0.30m radius automobile tire rotates how many radians after starting from rest and accelerating at a constant 2.0 rad/s² over a 5.0 s interval?

• 25 rad

• 12.5 rad

• 2 rad

• 0.5 rad

A fan blade, initially at rest, rotates with a constant acceleration of 0.025 rad/s². What is its angular speed at the instant it goes through an angular displacement of 4.2 rad?

• 0.025 rad/s
• 0.11 rad/s
• 0.46 rad/s
• 1.2 rad/s

A Ferris wheel starts at rest and builds up to a final angular speed of 0.70 rad/s while rotating through an angular displacement of 4.9 rad. What is its average angular acceleration?

• 0.01 rad/s/s
• 0.05 rad/s/s
• 1.8 rad/s/s
• 2.6 rad/s/s

A Ferris wheel, rotating initially at an angular speed of 0.50 rad/s, accelerates over a 7.0-s interval at a rate of 0.040 rad/s². What is its angular speed after this 7-s interval?

• 0.2 rad/s
• 0.3 rad/s
• 0.46 rad/s
• 0.78 rad/s

Which object listed below has the greatest momentum?

• A 0.05 kg object rolling at 0.2 m/s.
• A 0.15 kg object rolling at 2 m/s.
• A 0.15 kg object rolling at 1 m/s
• A 0.4 kg object rolling at 2 m/s.

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-2

Which has greater linear speed, a horse near the outside rail of a merry-go-round or a horse near the inside rail?

• the inside horse
• the outside horse
• Neither

A person sits on a freely spinning lab stool that has no friction in its axle. When this person extends her arms,

• her moment of inertia increases and her angular speed decreases.
• her moment of inertia decreases and her angular speed increases.
• her moment of inertia increases and her angular speed increases.
• her moment of inertia increases and her angular speed remains the same.