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Consider a rigid body that rotates but whose center of mass is at rest. True or false: the rotational kinetic energy of the entire object is
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Consider a rigid body that rotates but whose center of mass is at rest. True or false: the rotational kinetic energy of the entire object is equivalent to the sum of the translational kinetic energy of each small piece of the object.
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Answer:
True
Explanation:
Let us consider a rigid body which contains tiny particles of mass dm each. and the angular velocity ω for each of the particle is same and teh radius of rotation is r.
the linear velocity, v = r ω
The total kinetic energy is given by
K = 1/2 Iω^2
where I is the moment of inertia.