Exercise 4: Tangential Acceleration
Exercise 4: Tangential Acceleration
4. Consider a point on the edge of the sensor in the xz plane.
a) Calculate the tangential acceleration, aT , in units of cm/s2, over the interval shown.
b) Plot aT (t) and ω(t) on the same graph. (Again, not technically correct…)
c) What is the direction of the tangential acceleration?
d) At what point in the rotation is aT a maximum? A minimum? Does this make sense to you?
Discuss your answers with your lab instructor.