Hartland High School

The fun thing about about rotation is that it revisits every mechanics model we built this year, the objects just spin or roll.  Unfortunately, that also means it is a very intense unit of study.  I have embedded videos made either by me or from Khan Academy.  Any made by me have an associated PowerPoint you can examine.  After each set of videos I have created worksheets and also keys.

 

Time to just let it roll!

Learn what angular displacement, angular velocity, and angular acceleration mean, as well as the relationship between them.

 

• Rotation Worksheet 1 (Constant Angular Velocity)
• Rotation Worksheet 1 Key

• Rotation Worksheet 5 (Uniform Angular Acceleration)
• Rotation Worksheet 5 Key

Until this tutorial, we have been completely ignoring why things rotate.

 

It will leave your head spinning (no, it won't, but seemed like a fun thing to say given the subject matter).

 

• Rotation Worksheet 2 (Static Equilibrium)
• Rotation Worksheet 2 Key

• Try the Static Equilibrium Activity!
• Static Equilibrium Activity Key

• Torques at non-right angles (print version)