SHEET-5

Angular momentum about a point

Angular momentum about fixed axis and application of conservation of
angular momentum Moment of inertia
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1. A diver having a moment of inertia of 6.0 kg–m about an axis through its centre of mass rotates at an angular
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speed of 2 rad/s about this axis. If he folds his hands and feet to decrease the moment of inertial to 5.0 kg–m ,
Then the new angular speed is 1.2 K rad/s. Then find the value of K.

2. A wheel of moment of inertia 0.500 kg–m2 and radius 20.0 cm is rotating abut its axis at an angular speed of
20.0 rad/s. It pick up a stationary particle of mass 200 g at its edge. Find the new angular speed of the wheel.

3. A boy is seated in a revolving chair revolving at an angular speed of 120 revolutions per minute. Two heavy
balls from part of the revolving system and the boy can pull the balls closer to himself or may push them apart.
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If by pulling the balls closer, the boy decreases the moment of inertia of the system from 6 kg–m to 2 kg–m ,
what will be the new angular speed?

4. A thin circular ring of mass M and radius r is rotating about its axis with a constant angular velocity . Two
objects, each of mass m are attached gently to the opposite ends of diameter of the ring. Calculate the new
angular velocity.

5. A thin circular ring of mass M and radius r is rotating about its axis with an angular speed . Two particles
having mass m each are now attached at diametrically opposite points. Find the angular speed of the ring.

6. A uniform rod AB which is free to swing in the vertical plane about a horizontal axis A

through A, is hanging freely. A particle of equal mass strikes the rod with a velocity v0
L
and gets stuck to it. Find the angular velocity of the combination immediately after the
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collision. m v0

L

7. A boy is standing on a platform which is free to rotate about its axis. The boy holds an open umbrella in his
hand. The axis of the umbrella coincides with that of the platform. The moment of inertia of “the platform plus
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the boy system” is 3.0  103 kg–m and that of the umbrella is 2.0  103 kg–m . The boy starts spinning the
umbrella about the axis at an angular speed of 2.0 rev/s with respect to himself. Find the angular velocity
imparted to the platform.

8. A wheel of moment of inertial 0.10 kg–m2 is rotating about a shaft at an angular speed of 160 rev/minute. A
second wheel is set into rotation at 300 rev/minute and is coupled to the same shaft so that both the wheels
finally rotate with a common angular speed of 200 rev/minute. Find the moment of inertia of the second wheel.

9. Two small balls A and B, each of mass m, are joined rigidly by a light horizontal rod of length L. The rod is
clamped at the centre in such a way that it can rotate freely about a vertical axis through its centre. The
system is rotated with an angular speed  about the axis. A particle P of mass m kept at rest sticks to the ball
A as the ball collides with it. Find the new angular speed of the rod.
 
10. A cubical block of side  is moving with a velocity v 0 on a horizontal smooth 
plane as shown in the figure. If it hits an obstacle at point o, find the angular v0
velocity of the block just after hitting.
O

11. Two discs of moment of inertia I1 and I2 about their respective axis, rotating with angular velocities 1 and 2
clockwise are brought into contact face to face with their axes of rotation coincident. What will be the angular
velocity of the composite disc.

12. A boy is standing on a platform which is free to rotate about its axis. The boy holds an open umbrella in his
hand. The axis of the umbrella coincides with that of the platform. The moment of inertia of “the platform plus
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the boy system” is 3.0  103 kg–m and that of the umbrella is 2.0  103 kg–m . The boy starts spinning the
umbrella about the axis at an angular speed of 2.0 rev/s with respect to himself. Find the angular velocity
imparted to the platform.
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13. A wheel of moment of inertial 0.10 kg–m is rotating about a shaft at an angular speed of 160 rev/minute. A
second wheel is set into rotation at 300 rev/minute and is coupled to the same shaft so that both the wheels
finally rotate with a common angular speed of 200 rev/minute. Find the moment of inertia of the second wheel.

14. A kid of mass M stands at the edge of a platform of radius R which can be freely rotated about its axis. The
moment of inertia of the platform is I. the system is at rest when a fried throws a ball of mass m and the kid
catches it. If the velocity of the ball is v horizontally along the tangent to the edge of the platform when it was
caught by the kid, find the angular speed of the platform after the event. ]

15. A rod of mass m is lying on a smooth horizontal surface. A particle of mass m is moving with a A
velocity v0 strikes the rod at the centre and stick to it. Find the velocity of end A just after impact. m
m
v0

16. A kid of mass M stands at the edge of a platform of radius R which can be freely rotated about its axis. The moment of
inertia of the platform is I. the system is at rest when a fried throws a ball of mass m and the kid catches it. If the velocity of
the ball is v horizontally along the tangent to the edge of the platform when it was caught by the kid, find the angular speed
of the platform after the event. ]

17. Calculate the radio of the angular momentum of the earth about its axis due to its spinning motion to that
about the sun due to its orbital motion. Radius of the earth = 6400 km and radius of the orbit of the earth about
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the sun = 15.  10 km.
18. A dumb-bell consists of two identical small balls of mass ½ kg each connected to the two ends of a 50 cm
long light rod. The dumb-bell is rotating about a fixed axis through the centre of the rod and perpendicular to it
at an angular speed of 10 rad/s. An impulsive force of average magnitude 5.0 N acts on one of the masses in
the direction of its velocity for 0.10 s. Find the new angular velocity of the system.
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19. A wheel of moment of inertia 0.500 kg–m and radius 20.0 cm is rotating abut its axis at an angular speed of
20.0 rad/s. It pick up a stationary particle of mass 200 g at its edge. Find the new angular speed of the wheel.
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20. A diver having a moment of inertia of 6.0 kg–m about an axis through its centre of mass rotates at an angular
speed of 2 rad/s about this axis. If he folds his hands and feet to decrease the moment of inertial to 5.0 kg–m2,
what will be the new angular speed?

21. A boy is seated in a revolving chair revolving at an angular speed of 120 revolutions per minute. Two heavy
balls from part of the revolving system and the boy can pull the balls closer to himself or may push them apart.
2 2
If by pulling the balls closer, the boy decreases the moment of inertia of the system from 6 kg–m to 2 kg–m ,
what will be the new angular speed?

22. Can a body in translatory motion have angular momentum? Explain.

23. A particle of mass m is moving with constant velocity v parallel to x-axis in x-y
plane as shown in figure. Calculate its angular momentum with respect to y
origin at any time t. m v


b r
x

24. A particle of mass m is projected with velocity v at an angle  with the horizontal. Find its angular momentum
about the point of projection when it is at the highest point of its trajectory.

25. What is the minimum moment of inertia of a system of particles of masses m1 and m2, being interconnected by
a rigid light bar of length , about an axis perpendicular to the rod and passing through it.

26. Three particles, each of mass 200 g, are kept at the corners of an equilateral triangle of side 10 cm. Find the
moment of inertia / of the system about an axis.
(a) joining two of the particles and
(b) Passing through one of the particles and perpendicular to the plane of the particles.
27. Two particles of masses m1 and m2 are joined by a light rigid rod of length r. The system rotates at an angular
speed  about an axis through the centre of mass of the system and perpendicular to the rod. Show that the
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angular momentum of the system is L = r  where  is the reduced mass of the system defined as
m1m2
 .
m1  m2

28. A planet of mass m is moving in an elliptical orbit round the sun (mass
M) as shown in the figure. Find the angular momentum of the planet. r1 M r2
A  B
Sun

m Planet

29. A particle of mass m is moving with a uniform speed v in x-y plane along a straight line, y = x+k, What is the
angular momentum of the particle about the origin?

30. A block of mass m moves with a velocity v0 on a smooth horizontal surface. It then passes over a cylinder of
radius R and mass m, capable of rotating about its own fixed axis through ‘O’. The block, while passing over,
slips on the cylinder. The slipping stops before it loses contact with the cylinder. The block then moves on a
similar smooth horizontal surface with a velocity v. Then the
velocity v is m v0 v
2 2
(A) v 0 (B) v 0
5 3 O R
v m
(C) v0 (D) 0
2

31. A man, sitting firmly over a rotating stool has his arms stretched. If he folds his arms, the work done by the
man is
(A) zero. (B) positive
(C) negative (D) may be positive or negative.
 ANSWER KEY
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1. 2
2. 19.7 rad/s
3. 360 rev/minute
4. M/(M + 2m)
M
5.
M  2m
6v 0
6. (anticlockwise)
7L
7. 0.8 rev/s
2
8. 0.04 kg–m
2
9.
3

3v 0
10. Angular momentum about point o,
4
Li  L f
  m 2 m  2 
mv 0 I0     
2  6 2 
3v
  0
4
I11  I2 2
11.
I1  I2
12. 0.8 rev/s
13. o.04 kg–m2
mvR
14.
I  (M  m)R2

15. v0 / 2
mvR
16.
I  (M  m)R2
17. 2.66  107
18. 12 rad/s
19. 19.7 rad/s
20. 2.4 rad/s
21. 360 rev/minute
   
22. Yes, since angular momentum of a rigid body is given by L  Lcm  r  MVcm

If rigid body is in pure translatory motion, Lcm  0
  
 L  r  MVcm
23. mvb

L  MVcmr sin 
So, a particle or a rigid body in translatory motion always has an angular momentum about a point if it is not
lying on the line of motion.
24. At the highest point, it has only horizontal velocity
vx = v cos 
Length of the perpendicular to the horizontal velocity from ‘O’ is the maximum height,
y
v 2 sin2 
Hmax =
2g
 The required angular momentum H
x
mv 3 sin2  cos  O
L = , which is directed along negative z-axis.
2g
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25. I = m1x + m2 (  x)
m1 m2
dI
 = 2m1x  2m2(  x)
dx x -x
2
dI
= 2m1 + 2m2
dx 2
dI d2I
for minima  0 and 0
dx dx 2
dI
=0
dx
 2m1x  2m2(  x) = 0 (m1 + m2)x = m1
m2 
x=
m1  m2
d2I
 0 for any x
dx 2
2 2
 m2    m2  
 Imin = m1    m2    
 m1  m2   m1  m2 
m1m2 2
 Imin =
m1  m2
The axis must pass through the C.M. of the system.
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26. (a) 3/2000 kg-m (b) 4/1000 kg-m
27. ?
2GM(r1.r2 )
28. L= m
r1  r2
mv2r2 = mv1r1 …(1)
1 GMm 1 GMm
mv 22   mv12  …(2)
2 r2 2 r1
v1r12  1 1
 v12  2GM   
r22  r2 r1 
2 2
r r r r
v12 1 2 2  2GM 1 2
r2 r1r2
2GMr2
v1=
r1  r1  r2 
2GMr1r2
L = mv1r 1 = m
r1  r2
mvk
29.
2
y = mx + c and y = x+k
 = 45 and c = k
1 mvk
 Angular momentum, L = mv  k  
2 2
30. B
Using conservation of angular momentum about the axis of cylinder for the (block+ cylinder) system,
mR2 
mv 0R  mvR 
2
3
mv 0R  mvR (when slipping ceases, v = R)
2
2v
 v 0
3
31. B
Man did work to pull the weight in against the centrifugal force, so the work done by the man is positive.