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A uniform circular disc of radius r and mass m slides without rotation on a horizontal frictionless plane .Moving initially with speed v,it collide with an identical disc which is at rest. After collision they move as one rigid body.find final kinetic energy.

----------take r=5m,v=3m/s,m=24kg----


The answer is 63.

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1 solution

Neelesh Vij
Mar 15, 2016

For this question we need to calculate the angular velocity and velocity of the combined mass after collision.

For velocity simply conserve momentum in horizontal direction-

m v = 2 m v mv = 2mv^{\prime} , where v v^{\prime} is the velocity of the combined system.

Now to find the angular velocity , we will conserve angular momentum along the center of mass on the combined system . This is necessary as the combined body rotates along its c.o.m.

The center of mass of combined body lies on distance of R 2 \dfrac R2 from the c.o.m of each disc and at a distance of R R from c.o.m of disc as shown in figure:

Now first we need to find moment of inertia along the axis of c.o.m of combined body

I = 2 × ( M R 2 + M R 2 2 ) = 3 M R 2 I = 2\times(MR^2 + \dfrac{MR^2}{2}) = 3MR^2

Now from conservation of angular momentum:

M V R 2 = 3 M R 2 × ω \dfrac{MVR}{2} = 3MR^2 \times \omega

ω = V 6 R \rightarrow \omega = \dfrac{V}{6R}

Now to total energy of system is kinetic energy + rotational kinetic energy

= 1 2 M V 2 + 1 2 I ( ω ) 2 = \dfrac 12 MV^2 + \dfrac 12 I (\omega)^2

Now just plug in the values to get amswer which is 63 \boxed{63}

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