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Polar Kinematics: Velocity & Acceleration

This document contains 5 problems related to kinematics in polar coordinates. Problem 1 asks to calculate the area vector of an inverted cone using cylindrical polar coordinates. Problem 2 asks to find the velocity and acceleration in polar coordinates for a particle moving with given radial and angular displacements. Problem 3 asks to find the velocity and acceleration vectors of a particle sliding along a radial groove on a rotating turntable. Problem 4 asks to sketch the motion and find radial acceleration for a particle moving outward along a spiral path. Problem 5 asks to determine the velocity and acceleration of a particle moving along a helical path on a rotating cone.

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Polar Kinematics: Velocity & Acceleration

This document contains 5 problems related to kinematics in polar coordinates. Problem 1 asks to calculate the area vector of an inverted cone using cylindrical polar coordinates. Problem 2 asks to find the velocity and acceleration in polar coordinates for a particle moving with given radial and angular displacements. Problem 3 asks to find the velocity and acceleration vectors of a particle sliding along a radial groove on a rotating turntable. Problem 4 asks to sketch the motion and find radial acceleration for a particle moving outward along a spiral path. Problem 5 asks to determine the velocity and acceleration of a particle moving along a helical path on a rotating cone.

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PH101: Tutorial-1

Kinematics in Polar coordinates


Problem 1: Calculate the area vector of the outside
curved surface of an inverted cone whose basal
radius is r and height is h, using cylindrical polar
coordinates.
Fig. 1

Problem 2: A particle moves with    and      , where ,  and


are constants. Find velocity and acceleration in polar coordinates. For which
value of the radial acceleration would vanish?
Problem 3: A particle sliding along a radial groove in a rotating turntable has
polar coordinates at time t given by
  and  
where c and are positive constants. Find the velocity and acceleration vectors
of the particle at time t. Deduce that, for t > 0, the angle between the velocity
and acceleration vectors is always acute.
Problem 4: A particle moves outward along a spiral. Its trajectory is given by
  , where   1 m/rad, is a constant.  increases in time according
to     2, where  is a constant. (a) Sketch the motion, and indicate the
approximate velocity and acceleration at a few points. (b) Show that the radial
acceleration is zero when   12 rad. (c) At what angles do the radial and
tangential acceleration have equal magnitude?
Problem 5: A particle moves on the surface of a right circular cone (coaxial
with the z-axis, opening angle along a helical path of pitch L. The angular
velocity of the particle in the xy-plane increases linearly with time t as
   ! . Say, at t=0, =0, and z=0. Determine the velocity "#  and
acceleration $#  of the particle.

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