A uniform cylinder of radius is rotated about an axis passing through its center, with an angular velocity of . It's then placed on the floor and against the wall. Both the wall and the floor have the coefficient of friction .
If the number of rotations accomplished by the cylinder before coming to rest can be expressed as where are positive integers and is the acceleration due to gravity, find .
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Relevant wiki: Torque - Dynamical Behavior
Let the mass of cylinder be M and let the normal reaction with wall be N and with the floor be N ′ .
For horizontal and vertical equilibrium, we can write, N ′ + k N = M g and N = k N ′
Solving these two equations we get N ′ = ( k 2 ) + 1 M g .
Now, using the torque equations -
k ( N + N ′ ) R = 2 M ( R 2 ) α Here, α is the angular acceleration.
Substituting the values of N and N ′ , we get, α = R ( ( k 2 ) + 1 ) 2 k ( k + 1 ) g .
Now, using ω 2 = 2 α θ , where θ is the angular displacement. If the number of rotations are n then θ = n × ( 2 ( π ) ) .
On solving, we get, n = 8 ( π ) k ( k + 1 ) g ( ω 2 ) R ( k 2 + 1 ) .
Hence, the answer is 1 4 .