Learning Objectives

After completing the topic, the student will be able to:

  • Understand, discuss and explore about the rotatory motion and apply it to real world situations.
  • Define and discuss various terms like angular displacement, angular velocity, angular acceleration, time period of rotation, moment of inertia, angular momentum, radius of gyration, torque, etc.
  • Develop equations of motion for both rotational and linear motion.
  • Understand vector nature of angular variables and the concept of torque.
  • Explore and illustrate Newton’s second law for rotational motion.
  • Understand and explore angular momentum and its conservation.
  • Explore about the moment of inertia leading to parallel axis and perpendicular axis theorems.