Dreadful Rotation! 2

A tennis ball(solid sphere) of mass 1 kg and radius 1 m is sent along surface AB. It moves 21,560m until it reaches B. After that, it rolls on smooth surface BC and loses contact with the top surface. Assuming that as soon as it touches the bottom surface, it starts pure rolling and its vertical velocity component becomes 0, what is the minimum coefficient of friction required to satisfy the requirement.


Details and Assumptions:

  • Height CE=245m

  • Surfaces BC=1m, CE=245m and ED=1m are smooth

  • Ignore air resistance


The answer is 0.4.

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1 solution

Initially the ball has no spin, and hence it's point of contact with the supporting surface moves forward, and friction acts in the direction opposite to that of motion. The linear acceleration is 0.1 × 10 = 1 0.1\times 10=1 m/s 2 ^2 and the angular acceleration is 5 × 0.1 × 10 2 × 1 = 2.5 \dfrac{5\times 0.1\times 10}{2\times 1}=2.5 rad/s 2 ^2 . The time t t taken to cover the distance of 21560 21560 m. is given by 21560 = 343 t 1 2 t 2 t 2 686 t + 43120 = 0 t = 70 21560=343t-\dfrac{1}{2}t^2\implies t^2-686t+43120=0\implies t=70 sec. After travelling 21560 21560 m. , the translational velocity of the C.M. of the ball is 273 273 m/s. The angular velocity of the ball is 175 175 rad/s. The vertical impulse received by the ball on landing on the bottom surface is J v ^ = 2 × 10 × 245 = 70 \hat {J_v}=\sqrt {2\times 10\times 245}=70 kg-m/s. The horizontal impulse is given by J h ^ = 273 v 1 = 2 5 ω 1 70 \hat {J_h}=273-v_1=\dfrac{2}{5}\omega_1-70 kg-m/s. , where v 1 v_1 and ω 1 \omega_1 are the final linear and angular velocities of the ball respectively. With v 1 = ω 1 × r = ω 1 v_1=\omega_1\times r=\omega_1 , we get 3.5 J h ^ = 98 J h ^ = 28 3.5\hat {J_h}=98\implies \hat {J_h}=28 . For pure rolling to prevail, we must have J h ^ μ J v ^ 28 70 μ μ 28 70 = 0.4 \hat {J_h}\leq \mu\hat {J_v}\implies 28\leq 70\mu\implies \mu\geq \dfrac{28}{70}=\boxed {0.4}

Excellent solution sir

Aryan Sanghi - 1 year, 3 months ago

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