The World’s Fastest Turbine The drill used by most dentists today is powered by a small air turbine that can operate at angular speeds of 350,000 rpm. These drills, along with ultrasonic dental drills, are the fastest turbines in the world—far exceeding the angular speeds of jet engines. Suppose a drill starts at rest and comes up to operating speed in 2.1 s. (a) Find the angular acceleration produced by the drill, assuming it to be constant (b) How many revolutions does the drill bit make as it comes up to speed?
The World’s Fastest Turbine The drill used by most dentists today is powered by a small air turbine that can operate at angular speeds of 350,000 rpm. These drills, along with ultrasonic dental drills, are the fastest turbines in the world—far exceeding the angular speeds of jet engines. Suppose a drill starts at rest and comes up to operating speed in 2.1 s. (a) Find the angular acceleration produced by the drill, assuming it to be constant (b) How many revolutions does the drill bit make as it comes up to speed?
The World’s Fastest Turbine The drill used by most dentists today is powered by a small air turbine that can operate at angular speeds of 350,000 rpm. These drills, along with ultrasonic dental drills, are the fastest turbines in the world—far exceeding the angular speeds of jet engines. Suppose a drill starts at rest and comes up to operating speed in 2.1 s. (a) Find the angular acceleration produced by the drill, assuming it to be constant (b) How many revolutions does the drill bit make as it comes up to speed?
Definition Definition Rate of change of angular velocity. Angular acceleration indicates how fast the angular velocity changes over time. It is a vector quantity and has both magnitude and direction. Magnitude is represented by the length of the vector and direction is represented by the right-hand thumb rule. An angular acceleration vector will be always perpendicular to the plane of rotation. Angular acceleration is generally denoted by the Greek letter α and its SI unit is rad/s 2 .
43. A mass må undergoes circular
motion of radius R on a hori-
zontal frictionless table, con-
nected by a massless string
through a hole in the table to
a second mass m² (Fig. 5.33).
If m₂ is stationary, find expres-
sions for (a) the string tension
and (b) the period of the circu-
lar motion.
m2
R
m₁
FIGURE 5.33 Problem 43
CH
70. A block is projected up an incline at angle 0. It returns to its initial
position with half its initial speed. Show that the coefficient of ki-
netic friction is μk = tano.
Passage Problems
A spiral is an ice-skating position in which the skater glides on one
foot with the other foot held above hip level. It's a required element
in women's singles figure-skating competition and is related to the
arabesque performed in ballet. Figure 5.40 shows Canadian skater
Kaetlyn Osmond executing a spiral during her medal-winning perfor-
mance at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea.
77. From the photo, you can conclude
that the skater is
a. executing a turn to her left.
b. executing a turn to her right.
c. moving in a straight line out of
the page.
78. The net force on the skater
a. points to her left.
b. points to her right.
c. is zero.
79. If the skater were to execute the same
maneuver but at higher speed, the tilt
evident in the photo would be
a. less.
b. greater.
c. unchanged.
FIGURE 5.40 Passage
Problems 77-80
80. The tilt angle 0 that the skater's body
makes with the vertical is given ap-
proximately by 0 = tan¯¹(0.5). From this you can conclude…
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