Chapter 10 - Dynamics of Rotational Motion
Chapter 10 - Dynamics of Rotational Motion
Dynamics of
Rotational Motion
Lecturer
Muhammad Shuja Ur Rehman
Introduction
• What is meant by the torque produced by a force.
• How the net torque on a body affects the rotational motion of the body.
• How to analyze the motion of a body that both rotates and moves as a
whole through space.
• How to solve problems that involve work and power for rotating bodies.
• What is meant by the angular momentum of a particle or of a rigid body.
• How the angular momentum of a system changes with time.
• Why a spinning gyroscope goes through the curious motion called
precession.
Torque
• The quantitative measure of the tendency of a force to cause or
change a body’s rotational motion is called torque.
• The twisting effort is directly proportional to both F and l and so we
define the torque (or moment) of the force with respect to O as the
product of F and l.
• We use the Greek letter (tau) for torque. In general, for a force of
magnitude F whose line of action is a perpendicular distance l from O,
the torque is:
Torque and Angular Acceleration for a Rigid
Body
• The angular acceleration of a rotating rigid body is directly
proportional to the sum of the torque components along the axis of
rotation. The proportionality factor is the moment of inertia.
• Just as Newton’s second law says that the net force on a particle
equals the particle’s mass times its acceleration, the net torque on a
rigid body equals the body’s moment of inertia about the rotation
axis times its angular acceleration.
Combined Translation and Rotation
• For any rigid body, the kinetic energy is the sum of a part associated
with motion of the center of mass and a part associated with rotation
about an axis through the center of mass.
Work and Power in Rotational Motion
Angular Momentum
• The analog of momentum of a particle is angular momentum, a
vector quantity denoted as L.
• The rate of change of angular momentum of a particle equals the
torque of the net force acting on it.
Conservation of Angular Momentum
• When the net external torque acting on a system is zero, the total
angular momentum of the system is constant (conserved).
Examples
1) 10.1
2) 10.2
3) 10.8
4) 10.9
5) 10.10