All the chapter’s exercises, worked step-by-step, in order of appearance in the book: first the guided exercises within the text, then the end-of-chapter problems (numerical, conceptual, true/false, ranking, graphical, Fermi estimates and thought-experiment physics).
Exercises worked in the text
- Sphere rolling down a plane
- Projectile against a hinged rod
- Optimal height for a billiard cue strike
End-of-chapter problems
- Angular velocity of the minute hand
- True or false on moment of inertia
- Moment of inertia of a solid sphere
- Acceleration of a wheel on an inclined plane
- New angular velocity of a figure skater
- Light wheels on racing bicycles
- Rectangular torque and L(t)
- Hinged rod falling from horizontal
- König’s theorem for kinetic energy
- Earth’s orbital angular momentum
- Ranking four rolling objects
- The skater pulling in her arms
- Torque of a wrench
- Which ω(t) for a braked disc
- Rolling sphere, velocity at the base
- Wheel at 40 revolutions per minute
- Torque of a 25 cm wrench
- Seesaw in equilibrium
- Why the skater spins faster
- Ranking the moments of inertia of three cylinders
- True or false on angular momentum and inertia
- Bar suspended by two ropes
- Bowling ball and contact point
- Earth’s spin angular momentum
- Atwood machine with a massive pulley
- Double-radius pulley
- Disc with an unwinding rope
- Rotating disc struck tangentially
- 2D elastic collision on a billiard table
- Spinning top and precession
- Solid or hollow: which wins
- Bicycle and the gyroscopic effect
- Ranking ω at equal angular momentum
- Moment of inertia of a bar
- Moment of a force
- Energy of a flywheel
- Pulley with two masses
- Given α, find the torque
- Initial ω of a skater
- Thought-experiment physics: invariant moment of inertia
- Thought-experiment physics: angular momentum not conserved
- Pure rolling of a ring
- Diver and pirouette
- Slowing top and nutation
- The boomerang that returns
- Three regimes of ω(t)
- Reading a flat L(t) graph
- Fermi estimate: tyre on the motorway