Republic of the Philippines

CAMARINES SUR POLYTECHNIC COLLEGES

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2 Semester S/Y 2024-2025
PHYSICS FOR ENGINEERS

PRACTICE PROBLEMS.DYNAMICS OF ROTATION. Solve the following problems. Kindly show your solutions.

Problem 1: The drawing shows a jet engine suspended beneath the wing of an airplane.
The weight ⃗⃗⃗ of the engine is and acts as shown in the drawing. In flight the engine
produces a thrust ⃗ of that is parallel to the ground. The rotational axis in the drawing
is perpendicular to the plane of the paper. With respect to this axis, find the magnitude of the
torque due to (a) the weight and (b) the thrust.

Problem 2: A hiker, who weighs , is strolling through the woods and crosses a small horizontal bridge. The bridge is uniform, weighs
, and rests on two concrete supports, one at each end. He stops one-fifth of the way along the bridge. What is the magnitude of the
force that a concrete support exerts on the bridge (a) at the near end and (b) at the far end?

Problem 3: Workers have loaded a delivery truck in such a way that its center of gravity is
only slightly forward of the rear axle, as shown in the drawing. The mass of the truck and its
contents is . Find the magnitudes of the forces exerted by the ground on
(a) the front wheels and (b) the rear wheels of the truck.

Problem 4: The drawing shows a rectangular piece of wood. The forces applied to corners B
and D have the same magnitude of 12 N and are directed parallel to the long and short sides
of the rectangle. The long side of the rectangle is twice as long as the short side. An axis of
rotation is shown perpendicular to the plane of the rectangle at its center. A third force
(not shown in the drawing) is applied to corner A, directed along the short side of the
rectangle (either toward B or away from B), such that the piece of wood is at equilibrium.
Find the magnitude and direction of the force applied to corner A.

Problem 5: The wheels, axle, and handles of a wheelbarrow weigh . The load
chamber and its contents weigh . The drawing shows these two forces in two
different wheelbarrow designs To support the wheelbar row in equilibrium, the man’s
hands apply a force to the handles that is directed vertically upward. Consider a
rotational axis at the point where the tire contacts the ground, directed perpendicular
to the plane of the paper Find the magnitude of the man’s force for both designs

Problem 6: The drawing shows a uniform horizontal beam attached to a vertical wall by a frictionless
hinge and supported from below at an angle 𝜃 = 39° by a brace that is attached to a pin. The beam has
a weight of 340 N. Three additional forces keep the beam in equilibrium. The brace applies a force to
the right end of the beam that is directed up ward at the angle 𝜃 with respect to the horizontal. The hinge
applies a force to the left end of the beam that has a horizontal component and a vertical component .
Find the magnitudes of these three forces.

Problem 7: A 1220-N uniform beam is attached to a vertical wall at one end and is supported by a cable
At the other end. A 1960-N crate hangs from the far end of the beam. Using the data shown in the
drawing, find (a) the magnitude of the tension in the wire and (b) the magnitudes of the horizontal
and vertical components of the force that the wall exerts on the left end of the beam.
Problem 8: A wrecking ball (weight = 4800 N) is supported by a boom, which may be assumed
to be uniform and has a weight of 3600 N. As the drawing shows, a support cable runs from the
top of the boom to the tractor. The angle between the support cable and the horizontal is 32°,
and the angle between the boom and the horizontal is 48°. Find (a) the tension in the support
cable and (b) the magnitude of the force exerted on the lower end of the boom by the hinge at
point P.

Problem 9: A solid circular disk has a mass of 1.2 kg and a radius of 0.16 m. Each of three identical thin rods
has a mass of 0.15 kg. The rods are attached perpendicularly to the plane of the disk at its outer edge to form
a three-legged stool (see the drawing). Find the moment of inertia of the stool with respect to an axis that is
perpendicular to the plane of the disk at its center. (Hint: When considering the moment of inertia of each rod,
note that all of the mass of each rod is located at the same perpendicular distance from the axis.)

Problem 10: Two wheels have the same mass and radius of 4.0 kg and 0.35 m, respectively. One has the shape of a hoop and the other the
shape of a solid disk. The wheels start from rest and have a constant angular acceleration with respect to a rotational axis that is
perpendicular to the plane of the wheel at its center. Each turns through an angle of 13 rad in 8.0 s. Find the net external torque that acts on
each wheel.

Problem 11: A 9.75-m ladder with a mass of 23.2 kg lies flat on the ground. A painter grabs the top end of the ladder and pulls straight
upward with a force of 245 N. At the instant the top of the ladder leaves the ground, the ladder experiences an angular acceleration of 1.80
rad/s about an axis passing through the bottom end of the ladder The ladder’s center of gravity lies halfway between the top and bottom
ends (a) What is the net torque acting on the ladder? (b) What is the ladder’s moment of inertia?

Problem 12: The drawing shows the top view of two doors. The doors are uniform and identical.
Door A rotates about an axis through its left edge, and door B rotates about an axis through its
center. The same force is applied perpendicular to each door at its right edge, and the force
remains perpendicular as the door turns. No other force affects the rotation of either door.
Starting from rest, door A rotates through a certain angle in . How long does it take
door B (also starting from rest) to rotate through the same angle?

Problem 13: A Two disks are rotating about the same axis. Disk A has a moment of inertia of and an angular velocity of
/ . Disk B is rotating with an angular velocity of / . The two disks are then linked together without the aid of any external
torques, so that they rotate as a single unit with an angular velocity of / . The axis of rotation for this unit is the same as that for the
separate disks. What is the moment of inertia of disk B?

Problem 14: Two thin rods of length L are rotating with the same angular speed ω (in rad/s) about axes that pass perpendicularly through
one end. Rod A is massless but has a particle of mass 0.66 kg attached to its free end. Rod B has a mass of 0.66 kg, which is distributed
uniformly along its length. The length of each rod is 0.75 m, and the angular speed is 4.2 rad/s. Find the kinetic energies of rod A with its
attached particle and of rod B.

Problem 15: A bowling ball encounters a 0.760-m vertical rise on the way back to the ball rack, as the drawing illustrates. Ignore frictional
losses and assume that the mass of the ball is distributed uniformly. The translational speed of the ball is 3.50 m/s at the bottom of the rise.
Find the translational speed at the top.