MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

AE 262 DYNAMICS - SPRING 2022

HOMEWORK 1
Assignment date: Saturday, March 18, 2023 Due date: Sunday, March 26, 2023, 11:59 PM

Please follow the rules given on the last page of the homework sheet while preparing your
homework. Please upload your solution to the assignment in odtuclass as a pdf file with a name
of “name_surname_id_ae262_hw1”. Due date is Sunday, March 26, 2023, 11:59 pm. Late
homework will not be accepted!!

1. Two particles A and B start from rest at the origin s = 0 and move along a straight line such that
aA = (5t-10) m/s2 and aB = (10t2-7) m/s2, where t is in seconds. Determine the distance between
them when t = 5 s and the total distance each has traveled in t = 5 s.
2. Racecar A is traveling on a straight portion of the track while racecar B is traveling on a circular
portion of the track. At the instant shown, the speed of A is increasing at the rate of 7 m/s2, and
the speed of B is decreasing at the rate of 8 m/s2. For the position shown, determine (a) the
velocity of B relative to A, (b) the acceleration of A relative to B.

3. A race car enters the circular portion of a track that has a radius of 100 m. When the car enters
the curve at point P, it is travelling with a speed of 75 km/h that is increasing at 8 m/s . 5 seconds
later, determine the x and y components of velocity and acceleration of the car.
Please write the honor statement below on the first page of your solution and sign it:

I confirm that any assistance I received from peer consultations or any other sources should
only be limited to discussions on solution methods and checking my findings. Additionally, I will
not plagiarize the results from any source. I acknowledge that any breach of this commitment
may result in receiving a zero grade for this assignment.

Name, Date and Signature

Prepare your homeworks considering the remarks below:
1. Read the problem carefully, and make sure that you understand what is asked
2. Always draw a proper Free Body Diagram (FBD) in the beginning of the solution. In the FBD
there should not be any supports, or cables; only the forces. Also, do not forget to show the
orientation and directions of the vectors properly.
3. Do not forget to use arrows over the vectors as well as the unit vectors (i.e. 𝑖⃗ , 𝑗⃗, 𝑘 ⃗⃗ do not
leave as i or 𝑖̂). In addition to this, do not equate vectorial quantities to scalars.
4. When writing an equilibrium equation, or calculating the moment of a force do not forget to
show the direction that you assumed to be positive.
5. How you obtain the results is as important as obtaining them. Hence, please explain your
solution and assumptions, and show all calculation steps clearly (this is a hw and you have lots
of time to show the steps). Be careful when rounding off the numbers.
6. If the gravitational acceleration (g) is to be used in the question, take its value as g = 9.81m/s2,
not g = 10 m/s2.
7. The work you delivered should truly reflect your personal efforts and knowledge in the areas
of questions. Neither your peer consultations nor any help you got from others in any form
should not go beyond discussions on the solution methods used and/or cross-checking your
findings. Duplicate work will be discarded.
9. Presentation of your homework will affect the total grade you will get, so work neatly.
10. Late homework will not be accepted!!