Torque and Rotational Dynamics
A bicycle wheel with a radius of 0.5 m rotates through an angle of radians. What is the arc length traveled by a point on the edge of the wheel?
m
m
m
m
A wheel with a radius of 0.3 m rotates through an angle of 6 radians. What is the arc length traveled by a point on the edge of the wheel?
0.9 m
1.2 m
1.8 m
2.4 m
A point on the edge of a rotating disk travels an arc length of 1.5 meters. If the radius of the disk is 0.5 meters, through what angle (in radians) has the disk rotated?
0.75 rad
1.0 rad
2.0 rad
3.0 rad
A wheel with a radius of 0.4 m rolls without slipping and completes 5 full rotations. How far has the center of the wheel traveled?
0.8 m
2 m
4 m
8 m
A point on a rotating object is 0.2 m from the axis of rotation. If the object has an angular velocity of 10 rad/s, what is the linear velocity of the point?
0.5 m/s
1 m/s
2 m/s
5 m/s
A rotating object has a point located 0.4 m from its center. This point has a linear velocity of 6 m/s. What is the angular velocity of the rotating object?
1.5 rad/s
6.4 rad/s
15 rad/s
24 rad/s
A disk is rotating such that its angular velocity changes with time according to the equation (in rad/s). A point on the disk is 0.5 m from the center. What is the tangential acceleration of this point at t = 2 s?
3.5 m/s²
5.5 m/s²
6.5 m/s²
9.5 m/s²

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A rigid disk is rotating. Which statement accurately compares the angular and linear velocities of points at different distances from the center?
Points closer to the center have higher angular velocities.
Points farther from the center have higher angular velocities.
All points have the same angular velocity, but points farther from the center have higher linear velocities.
All points have the same linear velocity, but points closer to the center have higher angular velocities.
Two points, A and B, are located on a rotating disk. Point A is 0.2 m from the center, and point B is 0.4 m from the center. If point A has a linear velocity of 2 m/s, what is the linear velocity of point B?
1 m/s
2 m/s
4 m/s
8 m/s
Two gears are connected such that the smaller gear (radius ) drives the larger gear (radius ). If the smaller gear has an angular velocity of , what is the angular velocity of the larger gear?