Fan of this fan

When a ceiling fan is switched off, its angular velocity reduces to half after it makes 36 rotations. How many more rotations will it make before coming to rest?

The angular deceleration of the fan is uniform.


The answer is 12.

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4 solutions

Kushal Patankar
Mar 5, 2015

Let the angular velocity be ω \omega

Given that velocity becomes half after 36 rotation i . e . i.e. after angular displacement of 36 × 2 π 36 \times 2 π

So

ω 2 4 = ω 2 2 α 36 × 2 π \frac{\omega ^2 }{4} = \omega ^ 2 - 2 \alpha 36 \times 2π α is angular deceleration \alpha \text{ is angular deceleration} α = ω 2 192 π \Rightarrow \alpha = \frac{\omega ^ 2}{192π} Now let the number of more rotations be n n 0 = ω 2 4 2 ω 2 192 π x 2 π 0= \frac{\omega ^ 2 }{4} - 2 \frac{\omega ^ 2}{192π} x 2π x = 12 \Rightarrow x=12

In your solution above what is the LHS of first equation ω 2 4 = \frac{\omega^2}{4} = ... Can you explain what are the physical quantities on both sides of this equation and also the later equation 0 = ...

Ajit Deshpande - 5 years, 6 months ago

u must give me angular velocity unite (r.p.m or r.p.s)

محمد فكرى - 5 years, 6 months ago
Caleb Townsend
Mar 5, 2015

Here's a more conceptual solution:

Let ω \omega be the angular velocity. The total number of rotations in an interval of time is x = C × t 1 t 2 ω d t x = C \times \int_{t_1}^{t_2}\omega\ dt where C C is some constant depending on your units. On a graph of ω vs. t , \omega\text{ vs. } t, the integral is just the area of a right triangle. Also, the angular acceleration is constant, so it takes the same amount of time to slow down from full speed to half speed as it does to slow down from half speed to rest. See it now? The integral on the left (from full to half speed) is just three times the integral on the right (from half speed to zero). If t t is the time from full to half speed, then 0 t ω d t = 3 t 2 t ω d t \int_0^t\omega\ dt = 3\int_t^{2t}\omega\ dt x 1 = 3 x 2 x_1 = 3x_2 Now substitute x 1 = 36 x_1 = 36 to get x 2 = 12 x_2 = \boxed{12}

This is really extraordinary solution.I never thought this way.Can you post some problems where we will have to use the above method.Specially the Left hand integral is three times that of right hand integral was the key concept..right.

Thnkx

manish bhargao - 6 years, 3 months ago

This solution is interesting but it also implicitly uses the fact that α \alpha is constant, which means that ω \omega is a linear function in terms of t t . That's the reason that the relation with the integrals holds.

Tirthankar Mazumder - 1 year ago
Raghu Alluri
Nov 18, 2018

Since the fan rotates 36 times before it's angular speed is down to a half, we know that the angular position can be expressed as

θ = 72 π θ = 72π rad

Thus the angular velocity at that moment can be expressed as

ω 2 = 72 π / t ω2 = 72π/t where t is the time it takes to rotate 72 π 72π r a d rad

Then from this, we know that the initial angular velocity is twice that value given above so

ω 1 = 144 π / t ω1 = 144π/t

Let u u = ω1 then we have:

1 2 \frac{1}{2} u 2 u^2 - u 2 u^2 = 2 α 72 π 2α72π

3 4 \frac{-3}{4} u 2 u^2 = 144 π α 144πα rearranging for α we get α = u 2 / 192 π α = -u^2/192π

Thus α = 108 π / t 2 α = -108π/t^2

This time let ω 3 = 0 ω3 = 0 as the final angular velocity when the fan stops, then we would get the equation to be:

0 u 2 = 2 α θ 0 - u^2 = 2αθ where θ represents the total number of rotations until the fan stops permanently

Substituting all the values and rearranging for θ we get,

θ = θ = u 2 t 2 216 π \frac{u^2t^2}{216π}

Expand this expression by using the known value for u u . This would result in,

θ = 96 π θ = 96π But this is the total amount. We need the remaining amount which we get to be,

96 π 72 π = 24 π r a d 96π - 72π = 24π rad

Converting this to rotations we get 24 π / 2 π = 12 24π / 2π = 12 more rotations.

Therefore the fan will stop completely after 12 more rotations.

Jashwanth Rao
Mar 8, 2015

here is a simple method

every one knows the equations

v2 - u2=2as (v2 & u2 are squares of v & u)

use it in angular form and get the answer

first find 'a' in terms of 'u' ( 2a=u2/48)

then substitute 2a and find 's'(no of rotations) for 'v'=0&'u'=u/2

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