AP Physics - Rotational Motion Review

 2600 rev/min is equivalent to which of the following?

• 2600 rad/s 
• 43.3 rad/s 
• 273 rad/s
• 60 rad/s

A grindstone spinning at the rate of 8.3 rev/s has what approximate angular speed?

• 3.2 rad/s
• 26 rad/s
• 52 rad/s
• 81 rad/s

A 0.12-m-radius grinding wheel takes 5.5 s to speed up from 2.0 rad/s to 11.0 rad/s. What is the wheel's average angular acceleration?

• 9.6 rad/s/s
• 4.8 rad/s/s
• 3.1 rad/s/s
• 1.6 rad/s/s

A spool of thread has an average radius of 1.00 cm. If the spool contains 62.8 m of thread, how many turns of thread are on the spool? "Average radius" allows us to not need to treat the layering of threads on lower layers.

• 100

• 1000

• 3140

• 62800

A 0.30m radius automobile tire rotates how many radians after starting from rest and accelerating at a constant 2.0 rad/s² over a 5.0 s interval?

• 25 rad

• 12.5 rad

• 2 rad

• 0.5 rad

A fan blade, initially at rest, rotates with a constant acceleration of 0.025 rad/s². What is its angular speed at the instant it goes through an angular displacement of 4.2 rad?

• 0.025 rad/s
• 0.11 rad/s
• 0.46 rad/s
• 1.2 rad/s

A fan blade, initially at rest, rotates with a constant acceleration of 0.025 rad/s². What is the time interval required for it to reach a 4.2 rad displacement after starting from rest   

• 1.8 s
• 2.0 s
• 16 s
• 18 s

A Ferris wheel starts at rest and builds up to a final angular speed of 0.70 rad/s while rotating through an angular displacement of 4.9 rad. What is its average angular acceleration?

• 0.01 rad/s/s
• 0.05 rad/s/s
• 1.8 rad/s/s
• 2.6 rad/s/s

A Ferris wheel, rotating initially at an angular speed of 0.50 rad/s, accelerates over a 7.0-s interval at a rate of 0.040 rad/s². What is its angular speed after this 7-s interval?

• 0.2 rad/s
• 0.3 rad/s
• 0.46 rad/s
• 0.78 rad/s

Which has more rotational inertia? (consider all objects have equal radius)

• Hollow sphere
• solid sphere
• disk
• cylinder