BCECE Engineering BCECE Engineering Solved Paper-2015

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    If torques of equal magnitudes are applied to a hollow cylinder and a solid sphere both having the same mass and radius. The cylinder is free to rotate about its standard axis of symmetry and the sphere is free to rotate about an axis passing through its centre. Which of the two will acquire a greater angular speed after a given time?

    A) \[{{\omega }_{1}}>{{\omega }_{2}}\]                     

    B) \[{{\omega }_{1}}={{\omega }_{2}}\]

    C) \[{{\omega }_{2}}>{{\omega }_{1}}\]      

    D) None of these

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

    Consider \[{{\text{I}}_{1}}\] and \[{{\text{I}}_{2}}\] be the moments of inertia of the hollow cylinder and solid sphere about its axis through its centre respectively. Then,         \[{{\text{I}}_{1}}=M{{R}^{2}}\]                                             ? (i) and                \[{{\text{I}}_{2}}=\frac{2}{5}M{{R}^{2}}\]                                     ...(ii) Let \[\tau \] be the magnitude of the torque applied  on each of them. If \[{{\alpha }_{1}}\] and \[{{\alpha }_{2}}\] are the angular accelerations produced in the cylinder and sphere respectively, then \[\tau ={{I}_{1}}{{\alpha }_{1}}\] and                        \[\tau ={{I}_{2}}{{\alpha }_{2}}\] \[\therefore \]  \[{{I}_{1}}{{\alpha }_{1}}={{I}_{2}}{{\alpha }_{2}}\Rightarrow \frac{{{\alpha }_{1}}}{{{\alpha }_{2}}}=\frac{{{I}_{2}}}{{{I}_{1}}}\]                 \[=\frac{\frac{2}{5}M{{R}^{2}}}{M{{R}^{2}}}=\frac{2}{5}\Rightarrow {{\alpha }_{2}}=\frac{5}{2}{{\alpha }_{1}}\] \[\Rightarrow \]                               \[{{\alpha }_{2}}=2.5{{\alpha }_{1}}\]                      ? (iii) If \[{{\omega }_{1}}\] and \[{{\omega }_{2}}\] be the angular speed of the cylinder and sphere after time t, then \[{{\omega }_{1}}={{\omega }_{0}}+{{\alpha }_{1}}t\]                                     ? (iv) and        \[{{\omega }_{2}}={{\omega }_{0}}+{{\alpha }_{2}}t\]                                     ? (v) where, \[{{\omega }_{0}}=\]initial angular speed \[\therefore \]From Eq. (iv) and (v), it is clear that \[{{\omega }_{2}}>{{\omega }_{1}}\] \[\therefore \]The sphere will acquire more angular speed as compared to that of the cylinder after a given time.                


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