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ROTATORY MOTION

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MOMENT OF INERTIA :
1. Two thin uniform circular rings each of radius 10 cm and mass 0.1kg are arranged such that
they have common centre and their planes are perpendicular to each other. The moment of
inertia of this system about an axis passing through their common centre and perpendicular
to the plane of either of the rings in kg - m2 is [2002 M]
1) 1.510–4 2) 5 10–3 3) 15 10–4 4) 18 10–4
2. The moment of inertia of a hollow sphere and a solid sphere is same about their diameter.
If the two spheres have same mass, ratio of their radii is
1) 5 : 3 2) 5: 3 3) 3 : 5 4) 3: 5
3. Moment of inertia of a hoop suspended from a peg, about the peg is
1) Mr2 2) Mr2/2 3) 3Mr2/2 4) 2 Mr2
4. The radius of gyration of a body about an axis at a distance 4 cm from its centre of mass is
5 cm. Radius of gyration about a parallel axis passing through its centre of mass is
1) 9 cm 2) 1 cm 3) 4.5cm 4) 3cm

5. Three point masses are placed at the verticies of a right angled

triangle as shown below.
Moment of inertia about an axis passing through A and
normal to plane of the triangle is
1) 0.43 kg. m2 2) 0.25 kg. m2
3) 0.18 kg. m2 4) 0.07 kg. m2

6. Moment of inertia of a rod of mass 2 kg and length 1m about an axis passing through a
point 25 cm from the centre and normal to its length is
1) 2.9 kg m2 2) 1.9 kg m2 3) 0.29 kg m2 4) 0.19 kg. m2
7. The radius of gyration of a solid sphere of mass 2kg and diameter 2 5 metre about a
diameter is
1) 3 2m 2) 3 3m 3) 2 2m 4) 1.414m
8. The moment of inertia of an uniform thin circular ring about the axis passing through its
centre and perpendicular to the plane of the ring is equal to I. Its moment of inertia about a
tangent in its plane is equal to
1) 1.5 I 2) 2.5 I 3) I/2 4) None

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9. Moment of inertia of a circular disc of mass M and radius R about an axis along the
tangent at any one of the ends of the diameter in the same plane is I. Then the moment of
inertia about any one ofthe diameters is
1) 0.2 I 2) 0.8 I 3) 1.25 I 4) 2.5 I
10. Moment of inertia of a uniform horizontal solid cylinder of mass M about an axis passing
through its edge and perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder when its length is 6 times its
radius 'R' is
39MR 2 39 MR 49 MR 49 MR 2
1) 2) 3) 4)
4 4 4 4
11. Three identical rings, each of mass M and radius ‘R’ are placed in the same plane touching
each other such that their centres form the vertices of an equilateral triangle. The moment
of inertia of the system about an axis passing through center of one of the rings and
perpendicular to its plane is
1) MR2/2 2) MR2 3) 5MR2/2 4) 11MR2
12. Ratio of densities of materials of two circular discs of same mass and thickness is 5: 6.
Ratio of their moment of inertia about their natural axes is
1) 5 : 6 2) 6 : 5 3) 25 : 36 4) 1 : 1
13. Moment of inertia of a particle of mass 100g moving in a circular orbit of radius 0.5m
about an axis passing through the centre of orbit is
1) 0.25 kg. m2 2) 0.025 kg. m2 3) 0.5 kg m2 4) 0.05 kg. m2
14. Two small spheres of masses 5kg and 15kg are joined by a rod of length 0.5m and of
negligible mass. The moment of inertia of the system about an axis passing through centre
of the rod and normal to it is
1) 10 kg.m2 2) 1.25 kg.m2 3) 20 kg m2 4) 8 kg. m2
15. Moment of inertia of a circular disc of mass 4 kg about any diameter is 1/4 kg. m2 Its
radius is
1) lm 2) 0.5 m 3) 0.25 m 4) 0.75 m
16. The radius of gyration of an uniform thin rod of length 1.732 m and mass 1 kg about an
axis passing through it’s centre and perpendicular to it’s length is
1) 0.5m 2) 0.4m 3) 5m 4) 50m
17. Two solid spheres of each mass ‘m’ and radius ‘r’ are kept in contact. Moment of inertia
of the system about a tangent passing through the point of contact is
1) 4/5 mr2 2) 7/5 mr2 3) 14/5 mr2 4) 8/5 mr2
18. The radius of gyration of a hollow sphere about a tangent is
7 2 2 5
1) R 2) R 3) R 4) R
5 5 3 3
19. Moment of inertia of a solid sphere about a tangent is 70 kg. m2. Its moment of inertia
about a diameter is
1) 20 kg. m2 2) 10 kg. m2 3) 50 kg. m2 4) 25 kg. m2
20. The moment of inertia of a thin circular ring of mass Mand radius R about a tangent
perpendicular to plane of the ring is equal to

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 3 MR 2
1) MR2 2) 2MR2 3) MR 2 4)
2 2
21. The moment of inertia of an uniform circular disc about its central axis is I. Its moment of
inertia of about a tangent in its plane is equal to
1) 2 I 2) 2.5 I 3) 1.5 I 4) I/2
22. The rotational inertia of acircular ring about its diameter is 2 units. Its rotational inertia
about a tangent line in the plane of the ring will be
1) 8 Units 2) 6 Units 3) 4 Units 4) 2 Units

23. The angular velocity of a body changes from 1 to 2 without applying a torque but
changing moment of inertia. The ratio of corresponding radii of gyration [2001M]

1) 1 : 2 2) 1 : 2 3) 2 : 1 4) 2 : 1

24. The moment of inertia of a sphere of mass M and radius R about an axis passing through
2
its centre is MR 2 . The radius of gyration of the sphere about a parallel axis to the above
5
and tangent to the sphere is [2000E]

7 3 7 3
1) R 2) R 3) R 4) R
5 5 5 5
25. A solid cylinder of mass M and radius R rolls on a flat surface. It moment of inertia about
the line of contact is [96]

MR 2 3MR 2
1) 2) MR2 3) 4) 2MR 2
2 2
26. The moment of inertia of a solid sphere about its diameter is I. It is now made into 8 equal
small spheres. Moment of inertia of each small sphere about the diameter is
1) I/8 2) I/16 3) I/4 4) I/32
27. Four uniform rods each of mass ‘m’ and length ‘L’ are connected in the form of a square.
Its moment of inertia about the geometric axis is
1) 4mL2/3 2) 10mL2/3 3) 4mL2 4) 3mL2
28. The radius of gyration of a solid sphere of radius ‘r’ about certain axis is ‘r’. The distance
of this axis from the center of the sphere is
1) r 2) r/2 3) r 3/ 5 4) r 2 / 5

29. The moment of inertia of a uniform wire about Z axis when its is placed with its mid point
at the origin along X axis is I. It is stretched to double its length and bent at the mid point.
The two parts are placed along the X and Y axes. Now the moment of inertia about the Z-
axis is
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 1) 2I 2) I/2 3) I/6 4) 4I

30. Moment of inertia of a solid sphere about its diameter is 64 kgm2. If that sphere is recast
into 8 identical small spheres, then the moment of inertia of such small sphere about its
diameter is
1) 8 kgm2 2) 4 kgm2 3) 3 kgm2 4) 2 kgm2
31. The masses 1kg, 2kg and 3kg are placed at A, B, C respectively, and are joined with thin
rods of negligible mass. If AB=3m, BC=4m and CA=5m then their moment of inertia
about an axis passing through A and perpendicular to the plane ABC is
1) 93 kg m2 2) 125 kg m2 3) 107 kg m2 4) None
32. A straight thin uniform rod of length ‘4L’ and mass ‘4M’ is bent into a square. Its M.I.
about one side is

5ML2 7 ML2 ML2 ML2

1) 2) 3) 4)
3 6 48 3
33. The radius of a circular disc is 7cm. The radius of gyration of the disc for rotation about its
natural axis is nearly equal to
1) 3.5 cm 2) 14cm 3) 1.414 cm 4) 5 cm
ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS :

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34. A force of 4.i  j  3k N acts at a point whose position vector is 2i  j  2k Torque of
the force about the origin is

1) 2 N.m 2) 8 N.m 3) 5 N.m 4) 3 N.m

35. A constant torque acting on a uniform circular wheel changes its angular momentum from
L to 4L in 4 s. The torque acting on it is
1) 4 L 2) 12 L 3) 3/4 L 4) 4/3 L
36. A metre scale is held vertically with one end on the ground is allowed to fall. If the end in
contact with the ground does not slip, the speed with which the other end hits the ground is
1) 2.7 m/s 2) 7.2 m/s 3) 5.4 m/s 4) 4.5 m/s
37. Rotational kinetic energy of a disc is 800J. If its moment of inertia about its axis of
symmetry is 10 kg m2, its frequency of rotation is nearly (2 =10)
1) 4 rps 2) 8 rps 3) 2 rps 4) 1 rps
38. A disc of radius ‘r’ and mass ‘m’ is rotating about an axis passing through its centre and
normal to its plane with angular velocity ‘’. Its kinetic energy is
1) 1/2 mr22 2) 1/4 mr22 3) 1/3 mr22 4) 3/4 mr22
39. The shaft of a motor is making 1260 r.p.m. The torque supplied by the motor is 100 N.m.
Power of the motor is
1) 100 kW 2) 21 kW 3) 13.2 kW 4) 4.8 kW

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40. A tangential force of 10N is acting on a circular plate of radius 50 cm such that it can rotate
about an axis perpendicular to its plane passing through its center. If its moment of inertia
about this point is 0.5 SI units, then the number of rotations it makes in the first 6 seconds
is
1) 90/ 2) 180/ 3) 90 4) 180
41. A pencil placed vertically on a table falls without slipping. The linear velocity (in m/s) of
the middle of the pencil at the end of the fall, if the pencil is 15 cm long, is
1) 1.05 2) 2.1 3) 3.15 4) 0.5
42 An ice skater spins at 3p rad/s with her arms stretched. If her moment of inertia with arms
folded is 75% of that with arms extended then the kinetic energy increases by
1) 33.33% 2) 25% 3) 75% 4) 66.66%

43. A fan of moment of inertia 0.8 kg. m2 is rotating at the rate of 0.5 rps. Its angular
momentum is
1) 0.4  Js 2) 1.6 Js 3) 0.2  Js 4) 0.8  Js
44. Energy of 484 joules is spent in increasing the speed of a flywheel from 60 rpm to 360
rpm. The M.I of the fly wheel in kg x m2 is
1) 7 2) 0.7 3) 6 4) 0.6
45. The diameter of a flywheel is 1m. It has a mass of 20 kg. It is rotating about its axis with a
speed of 120 rotations in one minute. It's angular momentum in kg m2s-1 is
1)13.4 2) 31.4 [2002 E] 3) 41.4 4) 43.4
46. A mass is whirled in a circular path with a constant angular velocity and its angular
momentum is L. If the string is now halved keeping the angular velocity the same, the
angular momentum is [2001M]
L L
1) 2) 3) L 4) 2L
4 2
47. A thin metal disc of radius 0.25 m and mass 2 kg starts from rest and rolls down an inclined
plane. If its rotational kinetic energy is 4 J at the foot of the inclined plane, the linear
velocity at the same point is [97M]

1) 1.2 ms-1 2) 2 2 ms-1 3) 20 ms-1 4) 2 ms-1

48. The torque acting on a body is 100 Nm having moment of inertia 20 kg m2. Then its
angular velocity after 3 s is [97]

1) 1 rads-1 2) 15 rads-1 3) 5 rads-1 4) 10 rads-1

49. A thin uniform rod of mass m and length L is hinged at one end such that it can freely rotate
in vertical plane. Rod is held horizontally and then released. Angular velocity of the rod at
the instant rod is in vertical position is [3]

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1) 2gL 2) 3) 4)
L L L
CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM :
50. Two identical discs are placed one over the other and both are rotating about a common
axis through their centre and normal to their frame with angular velocity . If the upper
disc is suddenly removed, angular velocity of the other disc is
1)  2) /2 3) 2  4) 4 
51. A person is spinning with his hands outstretched at the rate of 4 rad/s. When he brings his
hands close to his body, he spins at the rate of 16 rad/s. The ratio of his moment of inertia
in two cases successively is
1) 4 : 1 2) 1 : 14 3) 16 : 1 4) 2 : 1
52. A dancer spins about a vertical axis at 60 rpm with her arms folded. If she stretches her
hands so that moment of inertia about the vertical axis increases by 25% , the new rate of
revolution is
1) 48 rpm 2) 75 rpm 3) 15 rpm 4) 240 rpm
53. If the radius of the earth contracts to half of its present value wihout change in mass, the
length of the day will be
1) 6 hrs 2) 12 hrs 3) 18 hrs 4) 24 hrs
54. A thin circular ring of mass M and radius ‘r’ is rotating about its axis with a constant
angular velocity . Two objects each of mass ‘m’ are gently attached to the opposite ends
of a diameter of the ring. The angular velocity of the system is
M M  ( M  2m) ( M  2m)
1) 2) 3) 4)
M m M  2m M ( M  2 m)
55. F = ai + 3j + 6k ; r = 2i - 6j -12k. The value of ‘a’ for which the angular momentum is
conserved, is
1) -1 2) 0 3) 1 4) 2

LEVEL - B
1) 3 2) 4 3) 4 4) 4 5) 1 6) 3 7) 4 8) 1 9) 1 10) 4
11) 4 12) 2 13) 2 14) 2 15) 2 16) 1 17) 3 18) 4 19) 1 20) 2
21) 2 22) 2 23) 3 24) 3 25) 3 26) 4 27) 1 28) 3 29) 4 30) 4
31) 1 32) 1 33) 4 34) 4 35) 3 36) 3 37) 3 38) 2 39) 3 40) 1
41) 1 42) 1 43) 4 44) 2 45) 2 46) 1 47) 2 48) 2 49) 3 50) 3
51) 1 52) 1 53) 1 54) 2 55) 1

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