USAPhO 2002, Полуфинал — Задача 5. B1
2002 Semi-Final Exam
Указания
INSTRUCTIONS
DO NOT OPEN THIS TEST UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO BEGIN
Work Part A first. You have 90 minutes to complete all four problems.
After you have completed Part A, you may take a break.
Then work Part B. You have 90 minutes to complete both problems.
Show all your work. Partial credit will be given.
Start each question on a new sheet of paper. Be sure to put your name in the upper right-hand corner of each page, along with the question number and the page number/total pages for this problem. For example,
Doe, Jamie
A1 – 1/3
A hand-held calculator may be used. Its memory must be cleared of data and programs. It may not be used in graphing mode. Calculators may not be shared. You may not use any tables, books, or collections of formulas. You may use a ruler or straight edge.
Questions with the same point value are not necessarily of the same difficulty.
Good luck!
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Условие

A thin semicircular hoop of radius and mass rocks back and forth without slipping on a rough surface. The center-of-mass of this hoop lies a distance below its center of curvature when it is in its equilibrium position. See diagrams above.
a. What is the semicircular hoop’s moment of inertia about its center of mass? [10 т.]
b. Find the period of oscillation for small amplitude oscillations. Ignore all terms higher than first order in the oscillation angle . [20 т.]
c. The hoop now undergoes oscillations on a frictionless surface with the period of oscillation . Ignore all terms higher than first order in the oscillation angle . Find the ratio of to . [20 т.]
Отговори
- a.
- b.
- c.
Решение
(10) a. The semicircular hoop’s moment of inertia about its center is .
Using the parallel axis theorem to find the moment of inertia about the center of mass
where is the perpendicular distance between an axis through the center of mass and a parallel axis through an arbitrary point.
In this case
(20) b. Finding the moment of inertia about the stationary point, the point where the hoop is in contact with the surface.
Using the Law of cosines to find
Substituting into the expression for
For small amplitude oscillations (keeping only terms through first order in
The restoring torque about the stationary point is
where the small angle approximation has been used.
Combining the last two equations in ,
yields
Comparing this with the defining equation of simple harmonic motion , gives an expression for .
For the period
(20) c. There is no horizontal force. The center of mass does not move from side to side. The y-coordinate of the center of mass is
including only terms through first order in . To this approximation, the vertical position of the center of mass is constant and its acceleration is zero as well. Thus
or
Taking torques about the center of mass
where we have once again used the small angle approximation .
Comparing this with the defining equation of simple harmonic motion , gives an expression for .
For the period
The ratio of periods is


Автори
The 2002 Semi-Final Examination questions were written by the coaches of the United States Physics Team. The coaches are: Academic Director, Mary Mogge – Professor of Physics at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA; Senior Coach, Leaf Turner – Physicist in the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM; Warren Turner – Physics Teacher at Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science, Worcester, MA; Robert Shurtz – Physics Teacher at the Hawken School, Gates Mills, OH; Boris Zbarsky –undergraduate student at MIT, Cambridge, MA; Andrew Lin – undergraduate student at Yale University, New Haven, CT. Questions A2, A4, B1, and B2 were suggested by Leaf Turner and Questions A1 and A3 by Mary Mogge.
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