14. Torque & Rotational Dynamics

Suppose that piano has a long, thin bar ran through it (totally random), shown below as the vertical red line, so that it is free to rotate about a vertical axis through the bar. You push the piano with a horizontal 100 N (blue arrow), causing it to spin about its vertical axis with 0.3 rad/s² . Your force acts at a distance of 1.1 m from the bar, and is perpendicular to a line connecting it to the bar (green dotted line). What is the piano's moment of inertia about its vertical axis?

A 1.6-kg grindstone in the shape of a uniform cylinder of radius 0.20 m acquires a rotational rate of 22 rev/s from rest over a 6.0-s interval at constant angular acceleration. Calculate the torque delivered by the motor.

Suppose David puts a 0.60-kg rock into a sling of length 1.5 m and begins whirling the rock in a nearly horizontal circle, accelerating it from rest to a rate of 75 rpm after 4.5 s. What is the torque required to achieve this feat, and where does the torque come from?

(II) The forearm in Fig. 10–57 accelerates a 3.6-kg ball at 7.0 m/s² by means of the triceps muscle, as shown. Calculate

(b) the force that must be exerted by the triceps muscle. Ignore the mass of the arm

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A particle of mass m uniformly accelerates as it moves counterclockwise along the circumference of a circle of radius R:

r→ = î R cos θ + ĵ R sin θ

with θ = ω₀t + (1/2)αt² , where the constants ω₀ and α are the initial angular velocity and angular acceleration, respectively. Determine the object’s tangential acceleration a→_tan and determine the torque acting on the object using 

(b) τ→ = Iα→ .