Asked in UHS MDCAT 2017 2017Moderate

A body moves in a circle with increasing angular velocity, at time 't'=6s the angular velocity is 27 rad/s... What is the radius of circle where linear velocity is 81cm/s:

Correct answer: D. 3cm

  • A. 6cm
  • B. 9cm
  • C. 7cm
  • D. 3cm

Explanation

So here we use the relation between linear and angular quantity i.e. Vt=𝝎r Rearranging the expression, we get r=Vt/𝝎 Here Vt is linear velocity r is radius of the circle And πœ” is angular velocity = 81/27 = 3cm Therefore the radius of the circle is 3cm. Note: we do not need to convert the unit of linear velocity i.e cm/s into m/s as all the answers are already given in cm.

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