
Two cars and start racing at the same time on a flat race track which consists of two straight sections each of length and one circular section as shown in the figure. The rule of the race is that each car must travel at constant speed at all times without even skidding.



Important Questions on Circular Motion
Consider the setup of a Ferris wheel in an amusement park. The wheel is turning in a counterclockwise manner. Contrary to the illustration, not all seats are aligned horizontally, i.e., parallel to the: -axis. Determine the orientation of the normal to seat as it passes point .



A particle of mass moves along a circular path of the radius with a centripetal acceleration changing with time as , where is a positive constant. The average power developed by all the forces acting on the particle during the first seconds is:
(Given that initial speed .)

A collar of mass is constrained to move along a horizontal smooth and fixed circular track of radius . The spring lying in the plane of the circular track and having spring constant is undeformed when the collar is at . If the collar starts from rest at , the normal reaction exerted by the track on the collar when it passes through is

A mass starting from reaches of a frictionless track. On reaching , it pushes the track with a force equal to times its weight, then the applicable relation is

Figure shows a smooth vertical circular track of radius . A block slides along the surface when it is given a velocity equal to at point . The ratio of the force exerted by the track on the block at point to that at point is:

A bead of mass is released from rest at to move along the fixed smooth circular track as shown in the figure. The ratio of magnitudes of centripetal force and normal reaction by the track on the bead at any point described by the angle would
