Thursday 19 January 2012

ROTATIONAL MECHANICS


The rotational analogue of force is moment of force (also referred to as torque) If a force acts on a single particle at a point P whose position with respect to the origin O is given by the position vector the moment of the force acting on the particle with respect to the origin O is defined as the vector product   τ = r × F
The moment of force (or torque) is a vector  quantity. The symbol τ  stands for the Greek letter tau. The magnitude of τ  is
                                                                τ  = rF sin θ
the quantity angular momentum is the rotational analogue of linear momentum. It could also be referred to as moment of (linear) momentum
Consider a particle of mass m and linear momentum p at a position r relative to the origin O. The angular momentum l of the particle with
respect to the origin O is defined to be
                                                                    l = r × p
The magnitude of the angular momentum vector is l = r p sin   where p is the magnitude of p and θ is the angle between r and p.
A rigid body is said to be in mechanical equilibrium, if both its linear momentum and angular momentum are not changing with time,
or equivalently, the body has neither linear acceleration nor angular acceleration. This means
(1) the total force, i.e. the vector sum of the forces, on the rigid body is zero;
If the total force on the body is zero, then the total linear momentum of the body does not change with time. Eq. (7.30a) gives the
condition for the translational equilibrium of the body.
(2) The total torque, i.e. the vector sum of the torques on the rigid body is zero, If the total torque on the rigid body is zero, the total angular momentum of the body does not change with time. Eq. (7.30 b) gives the condition for the rotational equilibrium of the body.

A body may be in partial equilibrium, i.e., it may be in translational equilibrium and not in rotational equilibrium, or it may be in rotational
equilibrium and not in translational equilibrium.
Theradius of gyration of a body about an axis
may be defined as the distance from the axis of a mass point whose mass is equal to the mass of the whole body and whose moment of inertia
is equal to the moment of inertia of the body about the axis.
the moment of inertia of a planar body (lamina) about an axis perpendicular to its plane is equal to the sum of its moments of inertia about two perpendicular axes concurrent with perpendicular axis and lying in the plane of the body.
I=I +I y
The moment of inertia of a body about any axis is equal to the sum of the moment of inertia of the body about a parallel axis passing
through its centre of mass and the product of its mass and the square of the distance between the two parallel axes.
Iz = Iz + Ma2

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