centripetal acceleration and tangential acceleration
Tangential acceleration(a๐)
this acceleration arises due to change in speed of particle or change in magnitude of velocity hence if particle velocity magnitude is changing due to this a acceleration will come in picture which is called tangential acceleration this is also a vector quantity hence its will have definitely direction now direction depend upon the velocity magnitude if velocity magnitude is increasing then direction will be along the velocity direction and if velocity is decreasing then direction will be opposite to velocity direction tangent to the radius as shown in above picture now its value is define as a๐ = d|v|/dt remember this is change in speed upon change in time concept it is not change in velocity upon change time v = velocity and | v | = speed hence in tangential acceleration has a condition if velocity is constant then d|v|/dt = 0 because constant differentiation is zero so in this case a๐ = d|v|/dt =0 so only centripetal acceleration will be there no tangential acceleration sometime centripetal acceleration is also called normal acceleration or perpendicular acceleration because it is perpendicular to the surface and tangential acceleration is called parallel acceleration because it is parallel to surface as shown above figure .
Net acceleration(a๐ท๐ฎ๐ฝ) this is due to total change in velocity due to direction and velocity magnitude both it is called net acceleration now its value is a๐ท๐ฎ๐ฝ = |dv/dt| now its direction will not be in velocity direction because a๐ธ and a๐ are always perpendicular hence a๐ท๐ฎ๐ฝ resultant will be a๐ท๐ฎ๐ฝ = โa๐ธยฒ+a๐ยฒ now for direction use triangle law tan๐ฐ = a๐ธ/a๐ now we will see some questions to clear concepts.
Q if tangential velocity v= 2t and radius r =9m find a๐ธ,a๐ and a๐ท๐ฎ๐ฝ at t =3s.
Ans for velocity v= 2t put t=3 v =2*3 =6m/s
centripetal acceleration a๐ธ = vยฒ/r = 6*6/9 = 4m/sยฒ
tangential acceleration a๐ = d| v |/dt = 2m/sยฒ
net acceleration a๐ท๐ฎ๐ฝ = โa๐ธยฒ+a๐ยฒ = โ4ยฒ+2ยฒ = โ20
Q2 if ๐ = 2t and radius r =2 find a๐ธ,a๐ and a๐ท๐ฎ๐ฝ
now you can solve this problem yourself using v = r๐ .
Angular acceleration(๐ ) change in angular velocity divided by change in time ๐avg = โ๐/โt or ๐inst = d๐/dt
Q if ๐ = tยฒ +1 find ๐ in 0 to 2s and at 2s.
Ans angular acceleration in 0 to 2s put t=0 ๐0 = 1 now put t=2s ๐2 = 2*2+1 = 5 โ๐ = 5-1 = 4 hence ๐avg = โ๐/โt = 4/2 =2 rad/sยฒ
now for ๐ at 2s ๐inst = d๐/dt = 2t = 2*2 = 4 rad/sยฒ
now one relation in angular acceleration and linear acceleration
a๐ = r๐ where a๐ is tangential acceleration .
Q if | v | = constant in a circular motion then find ๐, a๐,a๐ธ which will be constant ?
Ans since | v | is constant then ๐ = v/r here both v and r constant then ๐ will be constant hence ๐ = dw/dt = 0 which is constant now for a๐ we know a๐ = r๐ = 0 which is also constant now for a๐ธ = vยฒ/r here v and r are constant then a๐ธ magnitude will be constant but a๐ธ is a vector quantity and its direction is variable all the time in circular motion hence it will not be constant it will be variable remember this is important concept this is all about today topic we will continue in next post i hope you have enjoyed learning centripetal acceleration and tangential acceleration thanks for reading.
dated 16th sep 2018
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