Angular velocity, Spinning Beam
5cm 10cm 15cm 1. Use the velocity components to determine the direction of the velocity vector. Is it in the expected direction? - The angular velocity we obtained from our video analysis is nearly constant, making them tangent to the circular path the bem travels. These values are in the expected direction for the linear velocity components of circular motion. 2. Analyze enough different points in the same video to make a graph of the speed of a point as a function of distance from the axis of rotation. What quantity does the slope of this graph represent? - For our video analysis, we analyzed 3 different points on the beam in the same video and fitted the curve to a cosine graph. We plotted the speed values we got against the radius (3 different points), and the slope of this graph corresponds to the angular velocity, which is constant for all radii. 3. Calculate the acceleration of each point and graph the acceleration as a functi...
