PHYS 1P21 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Rotational Energy, Angular Acceleration, Wrinkle
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Example: a 1. 2 kg block and a 1. 8 kg block are attached to the ends of a rope that hangs over a solid pulley of diameter 0. 42 m and mass 1. 3 kg. The axle of the pulley is frictionless and the rim of the pulley has enough friction so that the rope rotates the pulley without slipping. (otherwise, friction can be ignored. ) Determine the accelerations of the blocks, the tensions in the rope, and the angular acceleration of the pulley. Solution: as usual, the first step is to draw free-body diagrams. However, the new wrinkle in this problem is that we"ll also draw a free-body diagram for the pulley. Then we"ll apply newton"s second law to each block, and we"ll also apply the rotational analogue of newton"s second law to the pulley. In applying the rotational analogue of newton"s second law to the pulley, we will get an equation involving the angular acceleration.