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1.9b Uniform Circular Motion Worksheet

This document provides 10 practice problems involving circular and rotational motion concepts such as centripetal force, tangential speed, angular velocity, and radius of curvature. The problems calculate values like maximum speed before breaking a string, centripetal force on an electron, tension in a string at different points in a vertical circle, frictional force needed to safely turn a curve, radius at which a car will start to skid, speed and distance traveled by an object on a rotating record or sling, and angular velocities of interlocking gears. The centripetal force on the electron is supplied by the electrostatic force.

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1.9b Uniform Circular Motion Worksheet

This document provides 10 practice problems involving circular and rotational motion concepts such as centripetal force, tangential speed, angular velocity, and radius of curvature. The problems calculate values like maximum speed before breaking a string, centripetal force on an electron, tension in a string at different points in a vertical circle, frictional force needed to safely turn a curve, radius at which a car will start to skid, speed and distance traveled by an object on a rotating record or sling, and angular velocities of interlocking gears. The centripetal force on the electron is supplied by the electrostatic force.

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Uniform Circular Motion Worksheet

1. A boy is twirling a 155 g ball on a 1.65 m string in a horizontal circle. The string
will break if the tension reaches 208 N. What is the maximum speed at which the
ball can move without breaking the string? (47.1 m/s)

2. An electron (mass 9.11 x 10-31 kg) orbits a hydrogen nucleus at a radius of 5.3 x
10-11 m at a speed of 2.2 x 106 m/s. Find the centripetal force acting on the electron.
What type of force supplies the centripetal force? (8.3 x 10-8 N)

3. A stone of mass 284 g is twirled at a constant speed of 12.4 m/s in a vertical circle
of radius 0.850 m. Find the tension in the string:

a) at the top (48.6 N)


b) at the bottom of the revolution. (54.2 N)
c) What is the maximum speed that the stone can move if the maximum tension that
the string can withstand is 33.7 N? (9.62 m/s)

4. You are driving a 1654 kg car on a level road surface and start to round a curve at
77 km/h. If the radius of curvature is 129 m, what must be the frictional force
between the tires and the road so that you can safely make the turn? (5.9 x 103 N)

5. A stunt driver for a movie needs to make a 2545 kg car begin to skid on a large,
flat, parking lot surface. The force of friction between his tires and the concrete
surface is 1.75 x 104 N and he is driving at a speed of 24 m/s. As he turns more and
more sharply, what radius of curvature will he reach when the car just begins to
skid? (84 m)

6. A record is spinning at a rate of 25 rpm. If a ladybug is sitting 10 cm from the


center of the record:

a) What is the angular velocity of the ladybug (in rad/sec)? (5π/6 rad/s)
b) What is the speed of the ladybug (in cm/sec)? (25π/3 cm/s)
c) After 20. seconds, how far has the ladybug travelled? (500π/3 cm)
d) After 20. sec, through what angle has the ladybug turned (in degrees)? (120°)

7. A sling is being rotated at the rate of 1.00 x 102 rpm.

a) What would the length of the sling have to be, in meters, so that the speed of the
object at the end will be 40.0 m/s? (12/π meters)
b) If the sling is 1.00 meters long, how fast will the object at the end be travelling?
(10π/3 m/s)

8. A sling that is 3.0 meters long sweeps out an area of 50. square meters every 5.0
seconds.

a) What is its angular velocity (in rad/sec)? (2.2 rad/sec)


b) What is its speed? (6.7 m/s)
c) How would doubling the length of the string affect the previous two answers?

9. A passenger on an amusement park ride is 3.0 meters from the center of the
ride. If the ride makes 60.0 revolutions every minute, what is the speed the
passenger at the outside edge of the ride? What is the centripetal acceleration of
passenger? (19 m/s, 11 m/s2)

10. A gear with an outer radius of 5.0 cm rotates in a clockwise direction, causing an
interlocking gear with an outer radius of 4.0 cm to move in the counterclockwise
direction with an angular speed of ω = 25 rpm. What is the angular speed, ω, of the
larger gear? (2π/3 rad/sec)

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