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Moment of inertia of a square lamina about one of the diagonals is :

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A uniform triangular plate of mass m whose vertices are ABC and has length $l, \frac{l}{2}$ and $\large\frac{l}{\sqrt 2}$. Find the moment of inertia of this plate about an axis passing through the point B and perpendicular to the plane of the plate

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Moment of inertia of a portion of a disc about an axis perpendicular to its plane; Mass of the object is M and radius R is

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Moment of inertia of three uniform rods of mass M and length l joined to form an equilateral triangle, about an axis passing through one of its sides.

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Moment of inertia of a thin rod of mass M and length l about an axis as shown .

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Moment of inertia of a rectangular plate about an axis passing through its centre and perpendicular to its plane

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The moment of inertia of a uniform rectangular plate about an axis passing through its midpoint and parallel to its length l is

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If the moment of inertia of a disc about an axis tangential and parallel to the surface is I.Then find the moment of inertia about the axis tangential but perpendicular to the surface in terms of the I?

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Three rings each of mass M and radius R are arranged as shown. The moment of inertia of the system about $YY'$ will be

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The moment of inertia of a sphere of mass M and radius R about an axis passing through centre is $\large\frac{2}{5}\;$$MR^2$. The radius of gyration of the sphere about a parallel axis to the sphere is

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On a uniform rod of length l and mass M, two identical masses m are kept at the extreme ends. What is the moment of inertia of the system about an axis passing through its center and perpendicular to its length ?

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A torque of $20\; Nm$ acting on a rigid body produces are angular acceleration of $4 rad /s^2$ What is the moment of inertia of the rigid body rotating about the fixed axis?

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A torque of $30\; N-m$ is applied on a 5 kg wheel whose moment of inertia is $2 kg\;m^2$ for $10 \;seconds$. The angle covered by the wheel in $10\; s$ will be

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A wheel has moment of inertia $5 \times 10^{-3} kg m^2$ and is making $20\; kw/s$ The torque needed to stop it in 10 s is

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A particle of mass m is projected with a speed U at an angle $\theta$ with the horizontal. Find the torque of the weight of the particle about the point of projection when the particle is at the highest point .

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A force $\overrightarrow {F} = 3 \hat i +2 \hat j -4 \hat k$ acts at the point $(1,-1,2)$. Whta is its torque about the point $(2,-1,3)$?

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A simple pendulum of length l is pulled aside to make an angle $\theta$ with the vertical. What is the magnitude of the torque of the weight of the bob about the point of suspension ?

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What is the torque of the force $\overrightarrow {F}=-3 \hat i +\hat j+ 5 \hat k$ acting at a point whose position vector vector is $\overrightarrow {r}= 7 \hat i+3 \hat j +\hat k?$

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The direction of the angular velocity vector is along

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A wheel is rotating at $900 \;rpm$ about its axis. When the power is cut off, it comes to rest in 1 minute. The angular retardation in $rad/s^2$ is

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The wheel of a car is rotating at the rate of 1200 revolutions per minute. On pressing the acceleration for 10 seconds, it starts rotating at 4500 revolutions per minute. The angular acceleration of the wheel is

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When a ceiling fan is switched on, it makes 10 rotations in the first 3 seconds. Assuming uniform angular acceleration, of how many revolutions it will make in the next 3 seconds?

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A wheel rotates with a constant acceleration of $2.0\;radians /s^2$. If the wheel starts from rest, the number of revolutions it makes in the first $10$ seconds will be approximately

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A wheel has a speed of 1200 revolution per minute and is made to slow down at a rate of $4\;radian/s^2$. The number of revolutions it makes before coming to rest is

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If a fly wheel makes 120 revolutions per minute then its angular speed will be

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Two particles A and B each of mass m are attached by a light inextensible string of length 2l. The whole system lies on a smooth horizontal table with B initially at a distance l from A. The particle at the end B is projected across the table with speed is perpendicular to AB. velocity of ball A just after the **** is

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A particle of mass m and velocity V collides obliquely elastically with a stationary particle of mass 'm'. The angle between the velocity vectors of the two particles after the collision is

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A particle of mass m strikes elastically with a disc of radius R, with a velocity $\overrightarrow {v}$ as shown. If the mass of the disc is equal to that of the particle and the surface of contact is smooth, then the velocity of disc just after the collision is

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Two identical billiard balls are in contact on a smooth table. A third identical ball strikes them symmetrically and come to rest after impact. The coefficient of restitution is

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A sphere of mass $m_1= 2 kg$ collides with a sphere of mass $m_2= 3 kg$ which is at rest. Mass $m_1$will move at right angles to the line joining the centres at the time of collision,the coefficient of restitution is

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A small ball on a friction less horizontal surface moves towards right with velocity V. It collides with the wall and return back and continues to and fro motion. If the average speed for first to and fro motion of the ball is $\bigg(\large\frac{2}{3} V\bigg)$, then the coefficient of restitution of impact is

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Two particles approach each other with different velocities. After collision , one of the particles has a momentum $\overrightarrow {p}$ in their center of mass frame. In the same frame, the momentum of the other particle is

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A particle falls from a height 'h' upon a fixed horizontal plane and rebounds. If e is the coefficient of restitution, the total distance travelled before it stops rebounding is

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In an elastic collision between two bodies, during the time collision is taking place, which physical quantity is conserved?

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In an inelastic collision between two bodies, the physical quantity that is conserved

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A body 'A' experiences perfectly elastic collision with a stationary body 'B'. If after collision the bodies fly apart in opposite directions with equal velocities , the mass ratio of 'A' and 'B' is

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Two particles having position vectors $\overrightarrow {r_1}= (3 \hat i - 5 \hat j)m$ and $\overrightarrow {r_1}= (-5 \hat i +3 \hat j)m$ are moving with velocities $\overrightarrow {V_1}= (-4 \hat i +3 \hat j)m/s$ and $\overrightarrow {V_2}= (-a \hat i +7 \hat j)m/s$. If the collide after 2 seconds, the value of a is

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A stationary body of mass 3 kg explodes into three equal pieces. Two of the pieces fly off at right angles to each other , one with velocity $2 \hat i \;m/s$ and the other with velocity $3 \hat j\; m/s$. If the explosion takes place in $10^{-5}s,$ the average force acting on the third piece in Newtons is

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A body 'X' with momentum 'p' collides with another identical stationary body ' y ' one dimensionally. During collision ' y' gives an impulse ' J ' to the body 'x'. Then the coefficient of restitution is

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In two separate collisions the coefficient the coefficient of restitution s $e_1$ and $e_2$ are in the ratio $3:1$ . In the first collision, the relative velocity of approach is twice the relative velocity of separation, then the ratio between the relative velocity of approach and relative velocity of separation in the second collision is

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A sphere of mass m moving with constant velocity $V$ collide head on with another stationary sphere of same mass. If e is the coefficient of restitution then the ratio of the final velocities of the first and second sphere is

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A sphere of mass m moving horizontally $V_0$ collides against a pendulum bob of mass m. If the two masses stick together after the collision then the maximum height attained is

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A bomb is projected vertically up with a velocity of $100 m/s.$ After $8\; s$ it blasted into two pieces of mass in the ratio $1:2$ . The lighter piece goes it with the velocity $40 \;m/s$ then what is the velocity of the heavier piece just after blasting?

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A body of mass m moving with a constant velocity V hits another body of the same mass moving with velocity V but in the opposite direction and sticks to it. The velocity of the compound body after collision is

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A rope thrown over a pulley has a ladder with a man of mass m on one of its ends and a counter balancing mass M on its other end. The man climbs with velocity $V_r$ relative to the ladder. Ignoring the masses of the pulley as well as the friction on the pulley axis, the velocity of the centre of mass of this system is

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A system of two blocks A and B and a wedge C are released from rest as shown in figure. Masses of the blocks and the wedge are $m,2m \;and \;2m$ respectively. The displacement of the wedge C when the block slides down the plane a distance 10 cm is (neglect friction)

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Two particles of equal mass are projected from the ground with speed $v_1$ and $v_2$ at angles $\theta_1$ and $\theta_2$ as shown. The center of mass of the two particles

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Mass is non- uniformly distributed on the circumference of a ring of radius a and centre at the origin. Let b be the distance of the centre of mass from the origin. Then

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A man of mass $80\; kg$ is riding on a small cart of mass $40\; kg$ moving with velocity $2m/s$ . He is running on the cart, so that his velocity relative to the cart is $3 m/s$ in the direction opposite to the motion of the cart. What is the speed of center of mass of the system.

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Two blocks of masses $m_1=2 kg$ and $ m_2=4kg$ are moving in the same direction with speeds $V_1=6 m/s$ and $V_2=3 m/s$, respectively on a frictional less surface. An ideal spring with spring constant $k= 30000\;n/m$ is attached to the bakside of $m_2.$ Then the maxiimum compression of the spring after collision will be

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