Apply the rotating-frame derivative formula first to , then to . Since the angular velocity is constant in either frame,
The two apparent forces in the rotating equation are the Coriolis force and the centrifugal acceleration multiplied by mass. Thus
Set . The supplied gradient identity gives . Taking the scalar product with removes , since it is orthogonal to , and removes the Coriolis force. Therefore the energy balance in a uniformly rotating frame is
The displayed quantity is conserved when the potential is stationary in the rotating coordinates. This includes a static inertial potential invariant under rotations about the chosen axis, such as vertical gravity in part (b). If the word conservative only means a time-independent inertial potential, that extra rotational invariance is needed; a conservative force alone does not imply the claimed conservation.
For an explicit counterexample to that unrestricted interpretation, take unit mass, an inertial force , , no , rotation , and inertial trajectory with initial velocity zero. It satisfies Newton's second law. Substituting into the proposed energy gives , which is not constant for nonzero rotation. The qualified conservation law above is the one used for the hoop.
Measure a signed angle from the upward radius in the direction of falling. With , gravitational torque gives
There is an idealization in the release condition: exactly upright and exactly at rest is an unstable equilibrium, so the exact ideal solution stays there. Uniqueness of this smooth equation with prevents spontaneous departure. The usual falling calculation means an infinitesimal disturbance, with its energy tending to that of the upright rest state. For that limiting separatrix motion, conservation of mechanical energy gives
On the branch with increasing angle, for ; the opposite branch has the opposite angular velocity. The nontrivial limiting motion approaches the upright position only as , because has a logarithmically divergent integral near zero.
Let point from toward , and in the direction of increasing angle, so and . The centre of mass acceleration on the limiting falling branch is
Gravity has components . Applying Newton's second law to the whole disc gives
The signed component parallel to the radius, positive from toward , is the required . This same radial formula is consistent at the exact stationary upright state, where , , and ; nonzero falling angles require the limiting-release interpretation just stated.
By Newton's third law, the force on the second particle is . For and centre of mass , Newton's second law gives . Thus
The centre moves on a straight line with constant velocity; zero velocity is allowed. For the relative position , subtraction of the two equations gives
Hence the two-body problem reduces to a single particle of reduced mass , together with the elementary centre motion. Reconstruct the positions as , .
Yes: the two equal masses can follow the same fixed circle in diametrically opposite positions. Put the stationary centre of mass at the circle's center and choose tangential velocities with the same sense of rotation. If the circle has radius , the separation is and the mutual gravitational force is directed toward that center, with magnitude . The circular orbit condition is , so an equal-mass circular binary has
These initial data maintain the opposite positions and give the same constant angular speed for both particles.
A central force has no angular component, so the supplied polar acceleration formula and Newton's second law give . Thus is the conserved specific angular momentum. For a nonradial orbit, allows to be used as a parameter. With and a prime denoting ,
Also . The radial equation therefore becomes the Binet equation
For a purely radial trajectory , the angular parameter is unavailable, and one instead uses the direct radial equation. The orbit in part (b) is nonradial.
The PDF gives initial position and initial rotating-frame velocity zero. Use those values; the TeX erroneously places dots over the position coordinates.
For rotation about the third axis, the supplied acceleration relation and Newton's second law give the equations of motion in a rotating frame
Thus . Set to combine the planar equations:
The two characteristic roots are and . From and ,
The triple-angle formulas therefore give the particularly simple astroid motion of a harmonic oscillator in a rotating frame
The orbit satisfies ; the zero speed at each cusp is consistent with the smooth time-parametrized motion.
Its rotating-frame speed is
Hence, for , the first maximum occurs at , and
The maximum repeats periodically. For a signed negative angular frequency, use and ; at the particle remains at rest.
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Astroid orbit and the first maximum speed in the rotating frame
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Use zero-relative-velocity mass shedding: the released sand initially shares the balloon's vertical velocity, rather than being actively ejected. Let and let a positive mass be shed in a short interval . The momentum of the balloon and that newly released sand changes by
The leading external impulse is . Newton's second law applied to this combined material system therefore gives
Writing for the remaining balloon alone would omit the outgoing momentum flux. A nonzero relative ejection velocity would instead produce a rocket equation thrust term.
Initial mechanical equilibrium gives . Write , so up to depletion. Then
Integrating from rest,
Since and , the final upward speed is
The acceleration is nonnegative throughout release, consistent with the upward motion.
For inferring an inverse-square force from Kepler laws, first use the area swept by an infinitesimal radius sector:
Kepler's second law makes the areal velocity constant, so is constant. Then , meaning that the acceleration has no transverse component. Newton's second law therefore gives a central force directed along the Sun–planet line.
For the radial dependence, set . Since ,
The radial acceleration is the Binet equation expression
The focus-based ellipse has , hence . Thus
For a planet of mass , the force is : it is attractive and obeys the inverse-square law. This deduction uses both the shape of the orbit and its constant areal velocity; the orbit shape alone would not determine its time-dependent acceleration.
For any vector , differentiating its components and the rotating basis gives the rotating-frame derivative formula
Apply it twice to the position , with constant angular velocity . The inertial acceleration is
where dots denote rotating-frame derivatives. Newton's second law therefore becomes
The last terms are the Coriolis force and the force corresponding to centrifugal acceleration.
For the particle on a uniformly rotating inclined plane, choose orthonormal vectors along the horizontal axis and up the slope, and set , the upward normal vector. Then and
Here is the normal reaction. The marble is modeled as the smooth sliding particle specified by the printed equations, without an additional rolling constraint. The rotating-frame Coriolis acceleration and centrifugal acceleration are respectively
The normal rotating-frame acceleration is zero, so the normal reaction is not generally ; it satisfies
Projecting the same equation onto the two tangential axes gives exactly
Multiply the equations by and and add. The Coriolis force terms cancel, as expected because this force does no work relative to the rotating frame. The normal reaction also does no work along the plane. The conserved quantity is rotating-frame kinetic energy plus gravitational and centrifugal potential energy:
This need not be the conserved inertial energy, since the externally driven rotating plane can exchange energy with the particle.
In classical charged particle in a uniform magnetic field motion, the Lorentz force and Newton's second law give
Assume and choose an orthonormal coordinate system with , . Write , retaining the sign of the electric charge. The velocity equations are
Thus the parallel velocity is constant, and the perpendicular velocity rotates at constant angular frequency. Choosing the time origin and perpendicular axes conveniently gives
Integrating the velocity, one obtains
The first two coordinates describe a circle of radius , while the third advances uniformly. This is helical motion in a uniform magnetic field: the helix has axis parallel to through the guiding centre. Its cyclotron frequency is
and its signed angular velocity vector about that axis is . The minus sign follows from the ordering in the Lorentz force. The helix degenerates to a circle when and to a straight line when . If or , there is only straight-line motion. In a relativistic extension with fixed Lorentz factor , the frequency becomes ; the classical result above uses as momentum.
Use Newton's second law, . Acceleration has physical dimension , so multiplying by mass gives the dimension of force
The bracket notation records a physical dimension, rather than the numerical value or the choice of units.
For , Newton's second law gives
Define the exponential relaxation time and terminal velocity . Solving the first-order equation for and then integrating gives
Both prescribed initial values hold. The current approaches zero as the bar approaches terminal velocity. If , there is no magnetic force and instead , ; the constant current is .
The rotating-frame derivative formula is . Applying it twice to the position vector, with constant angular velocity, gives
Solving for identifies the displayed terms: its left side is the acceleration relative to the rotating reference frame, the first right-hand term is the inertial acceleration, is the Coriolis acceleration, and is the outward centrifugal acceleration.
For a particle of mass , replace by the actual force divided by using Newton's second law. The remaining terms then appear as apparent forces in . There is no Euler acceleration because is constant and no translational acceleration term because the common origin is fixed in the inertial frame.
The dimensions are , , , and . Under the stated model, are the only parameters determining the ascent time. If is dimensionless, then , , and , leaving one independent dimensionless variable. One convenient choice is
Thus dimensional analysis fixes the form, but Newton's second law must determine the function .
Take upward velocity as positive. Throughout ascent, Newton's second law with linear drag gives . An integrating factor or direct solution of this linear ordinary differential equation gives
The first zero of this velocity is the highest point, so
This vertical ascent under linear drag has for , since . The limit recovers the no-drag ascent time ; gives .
Write the density and pressure as and , and let the small fluid velocity be the gradient of an acoustic velocity potential, . The linear homentropic acoustic equations are
where the adiabatic sound speed of a perfect gas is . Absorbing a function of time into , the momentum equation gives
Eliminating and gives the acoustic wave equation
Let the shell displacement be and put , . The spherically symmetric solution regular at the centre is
The kinematic boundary condition gives
Since , the pressure amplitude on the shell is therefore
The radial Newton's second law per unit area is
so its complex amplitude satisfies
For a nonzero mode, cancellation of and multiplication by yield the frequency equation for spherically symmetric vibration of a gas-filled elastic shell:
The spectrum is discrete and contains infinitely many positive solutions. Indeed, for sufficiently large , runs from to on , forcing at least one root there. These high modes are predominantly standing acoustic modes of the gas, while the lowest mode is predominantly the shell's radial breathing mode; the coupling shifts both families.