Ch 1

1. Circular motion is an example of rotatory motion.

2. All circular motion is periodic motion.

3. Circular Motion can be an example of periodic motion.

4. A uniform linear motion is unaccelerated, while a uniform circular motion is an accelerated motion.

5. The motion of the moon around the earth in circular path is an accelerated motion.

6. The motion of the moon around the earth is a curvilinear motion.

7. The motion of the moon around the earth in circular path is an accelerated motion.

8. In a uniform circular motion, the speed continuously changes because the direction of motion
changes.

9. The plates of the outermost layer of the Earth are always in continuous motion.

10. The moon's motion around the earth involves first law of motion and uniform motion.

11. When a body moves in circular path with uniform speed, it's motion is called uniform circular
motion.

12. The motion of a giant wheel is a circular motion.

13. The earth moves around the sun with a uniform velocity.

14. The seasonal changes occur due to the revolution of the earth in an elliptical orbit around the sun.

15. The equations of rotational kinematics are of the same form as the equations of linear kinematics
with the variables s, v, a replaced by θ, ω, α.

16. Angular quantities and linear quantities cannot be related.

17. Newton's first law does not apply to rotating objects.

18. According to the law of inertia, rotating objects tend to keep rotating.

19. Rotational inertia depends on the force of gravity.

20. Rotational inertia depends on the mass of an object.

21. Rotational inertia depends on the distribution of mass in the object.

22. Rotational inertia is always constant.

23. As the distance between an object's mass concentration and its axis of rotation increases, its
rotational inertia increases.

24. The rotational inertia of an object is constant and cannot change.

25. The three major axes of rotation of the human body are at right angles to one another and pass
through the center of gravity.

26. The human body's longitudinal axis runs from head to toe.

27. The human body's longitudinal axis passes through the center of gravity.

28. Much of the body's mass is concentrated along the longitudinal axis.

29. The human body's longitudinal axis has the least rotational inertia of the three body axes.

30. It is easier to spin when your body is in a tucked position than when it is outstretched.

31. When doing a cartwheel, a person rotates about his or her transverse axis.

32. An object with a great rotational inertia will roll down an incline more quickly than one

with a small rotational inertia.

33. Any hollow cylinder will roll down an incline with more acceleration than any solid cylinder.

34. Any moving object has momentum.

35. When rotational speed is assigned a direction, it is known as rotational velocity.

36. Rotational velocity is a vector quantity.

37. Rotational velocity has the same direction as angular momentum.

38. Rotational velocity lies along the axis of rotation of an object.

39. An object's rotational velocity is equal in magnitude to its angular momentum.

40. The angular momentum of a small object rotating at a very large radial distance is equal to its linear
momentum.

41. The angular momentum of a rotating system is conserved if no external torque acts on it.

42. A cat dropped upside down will twist and land on its feet while maintaining a state of zero angular
momentum.

43. Objects in a rotating reference frame seem to experience an outwardly directed centrifugal force.

44. Objects of the same shape but different sizes accelerate equally when rolled down an incline.

45. Torque is the measure of the force that can cause an object to rotate about an axis.

Fill in the blanks.

1. In _______ motion, the object just moves in a circle.

2. Artificial satellites going around the earth at a constant ________.

3. In _________ motion, the object rotates about an axis.

4. Rotation of earth about its own axis which creates the cycle of day and night is the example of
_______ motion.

5. The motion of the blades of a fan, and motion of a Ferris wheel in an amusement park are the
examples of _________ motion.

6. A ________ is a body that does not deform or change shape.

7. The distance between any two particles within the rigid body remains ________.

8. If a rigid body is moved in rotational motion, all the particles constituting it undergo circular motion
about a _______.

9. When a rigid body _______, it can speed up (or) slow down.

10. In circular motion, when the angular velocity of body is changing, it has an _________.

11. If the angular velocity changes at a constant rate, the angular acceleration is _________.

12. Rotational variables are angular displacement ______, and angular acceleration.

13. ______are applied to analyze the rotational motion for a rigid body about a fixed axis under a
constant angular acceleration.

14. For an object that rotates with a ______, the kinematic equations for rotational motion can be
derived in terms of the angular displacement, angular velocity and angular acceleration of the object at
any instant of time.

15. The angular acceleration of a rotating object is equal to ______, when the body is rotating with
constant angular velocity.

16. All particles of an object rotating around the ______ move in a circular path.

17. All particles of the body move in a circle lying on a plane that is _______ to the axis.

18. If the linear distance of a particle of rotating object measured along the arc is s and the arc subtends
angle θ at the origin, the relation between arc length s and angular displacement is θ _______.

19. The ______ of rotational object is constant for all the particles comprising the object.

20. The relation between the magnitude of the linear velocity v and the angular velocity w of a particle is

______.

21. Since the direction of linear velocity is tangent to the path, the linear velocity is also called ________.

22. If the ______ of the angular velocity of a rotating object changes, the magnitude of linear velocity
will also change and the object will have a tangential acceleration.

23. The direction of tangential acceleration is always ________ to the circular path.

24. The ______ of a rotating object is a measure of how fast a tangential velocity changes.

25. The tangential acceleration aT , relates to angular acceleration α by the equation ________.
26. In rotational motion, the direction of _______ is tangent to rim of the wheel.

27. In circular motion, a tangential acceleration can change the _____ of the velocity but not its
direction.

28. On a rotating carousel, a child sits on a horse near the outer edge has ______ linear velocity than
another child sits on a lion halfway out from the center.

29. On a rotating carousel, a child sits on a horse near the outer edge and another child sits on a lion
halfway out from the center are ________ angular velocity.

30. An object that moves in a circle at constant speed is said to experience _______.

31. In a uniform circular motion, the magnitude of the velocity remains _______.

32. In a uniform circular motion, the ________ of the velocity continuously changes as the object moves
around the circle.

33. In a uniform circular motion, the change in direction of velocity constitutes an _______.

34. An object revolving in a circle is continuously _______, even

when the speed remains constant.

35. For time interval Δt approaches zero, the average acceleration can also be regarded as the ________
acceleration.

36. Centripetal acceleration is directed the point the _____ centre of the circle.

37. For uniform circular motion, the acceleration vector points towards the centre of the circular path
while the linear velocity vector is _______ to the path.

38. In uniform circulation, the acceleration and linear velocity are ______ to each other at every point in
the path.

39. The centripetal acceleration and linear velocity are related as _______.

40. In non-uniform circular motion, an object is moving in a circular path with a ______ speed
(magnitude of linear velocity).

41. The angular speed of the object is changing and the object experiences the _______.

42. The angular acceleration gives rise to the _______ which is tangential to the circle.

43. An object in non-uniform circular motion has a resultant acceleration that is the vector sum of the
and ______ tangential accelerations.

44. In non-uniform circular motion, the resultant acceleration a is along the direction of change of
velocity Δv, which is directed _____ the circle but does not pass through its centre.

45. Unlike tangential acceleration, ________ acceleration is present in both uniform and non-uniform
circular motion.
46. The two acceleration vectors ac and a are ______ to each other, with ac in the radial direction and at
in the tangential direction.

47. The magnitude of resultant acceleration ā in both uniform and non-uniform circular motion is
_______.

48. The direction of resultant acceleration in both uniform and non-uniform circular motion a is _______.

49. A point at the tip of centrifuge has both centripetal acceleration and ______ acceleration.

50. Suppose a piece of food is on the edge of a rotating microwave oven plate. (i) When the plate starts
to spin faster, it experiences ______.(ii) When the plate rotates at constant angular velocity, it
experiences ________. (iii) When the plate slows to a halt, it experiences _____.

51. If the angular velocity of the rotating object changes at a constant rate, the angular acceleration is
_______.

52. Consider a circular plate turning on a lathe. The angular and tangential speeds at any point on the
plate are _______.