Q. The moon’s orbital radius is 3.85 × 108 m, and its period is about 27.3 days.

What is its speed as

it goes around the Earth?
Q. You have a ball on a string, and you’re whipping it around in a circle. If the radius of its circle is
1.0 m and its period is 1.0 sec, what is its speed?
Q. You have a toy plane on a wire, and it’s traveling around in a circle. If the radius of its circle is
10.0 m and its period is 0.75 sec, what is its speed?
Q. The moon goes around the Earth in about 27.3 days. What is its angular velocity?
Q. You have a toy plane on a string that goes around three complete circles in 9.0 sec. What is its
angular velocity?
Q. You’re swinging a baseball bat around, getting ready for your shot at the ball. If you swing the
bat in a half circle in 1.0 sec, what is its angular velocity
Q. A satellite is orbiting the Earth at 8.7 × 10–4 radians/sec. How long will it take to circle the entire
world?
Q. A merry-go-round is spinning around at 2.1 radians/sec. How long will it take to go in a
complete circle?
Q. Your toy plane on a string accelerates from ω = 2.1 radians/sec to 3.1 radians/sec in 1.0 sec.
What is its angular acceleration?
Q. Your model globe is turning at 2.0 radians/sec, which you decide isn’t fast enough. So you give it
a push, accelerating it in 10–1 sec to 5.0 radians/sec. What is its angular acceleration?
Q. You have a toy plane on a wire, and it’s traveling around in a circle at 3.5 radians/ sec. You speed
it up to 5.4 radians/sec in 3.0 sec. What was its angular acceleration?
Q. You’re square dancing, turning your partner around at 1.0 radians/sec. Then you speed up for
0.50 sec at an angular acceleration of 10.0 radians/sec2. What is your partner’s final angular speed?
Q. You’re trying a new yoga move, and starting your arm at rest, you accelerate it at 15 radians/sec2
over 1.0 sec. What’s your arm’s final angular velocity?
Q. A marble is rolling around a circular track at 6.0 radians/sec and then accelerates at 1.0
radians/sec2. How many radians has it gone through in 1 minute?
Q. Your model globe is spinning at 1.0 radians/sec when you give it a push. If you accelerate it at
5.0 radians/sec2, how many radians has it turned through in 5.0 sec?
Q. Your toy plane on a wire is traveling around in a circle at 8.0 radians/sec. If you accelerate it at
1.0 radians/sec2 for 20 sec, how many radians has it gone through during that time?
Q. You’re whipping a ball on a string around in a circle. If it’s going 7.0 radians/sec and at the end
of 6.0 sec has gone through 60.0 radians, what was its angular acceleration?
Q. A roulette wheel is slowing down, starting at from 12.0 radians/sec and going through 40.0
radians in 5.0 sec. What was its angular acceleration?
Q. A helicopter’s blades are speeding up. In 1.0 sec, they go from 60 radians/sec to 80 radians/sec.
If the angular acceleration is 10 radians/sec2, what is the total angle the blades have gone through?
Q. Your ball on a string is traveling around in a circle. If it goes from 12 radians/sec to 24
radians/sec and the angular acceleration is 20 radians/sec2, what is the total angle the ball has gone
through during this acceleration?
Q. The tips of a helicopter’s blades are moving at 300 m/sec and have a radius of 7.0 m. What is the
centripetal acceleration of those tips?
Q. Your ball on a string is rotating around in a circle. If it’s going 60 mph at a radius of 2.0 m, what
is its centripetal acceleration?
Q. The moon goes around the Earth about every 27.3 days with a distance from the Earth of 3.85 ×
108 m. If the moon’s mass is 7.35 × 1022 kg, what is the centripetal force that the Earth’s gravity
exerts on it as it orbits the Earth?
Q. You’re exerting a force on a string to keep a ball on a string going in a circle. If the ball has a
mass of 0.1 kg and the angular velocity of the ball is 8.0 radians/sec at a distance of 2.0 m, what is
the centripetal force you need to apply to keep the ball going in a circle?
Q. You have a 1.0 kg toy plane on the end of a 10 m wire, and it’s going around at 6.0 radians/sec.
What is the force you have to apply to the wire to keep the plane going in a circle?