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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:07, 19 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Done <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2015</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">01</del>-15 ]]  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Done <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2018</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">07</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">20]] </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;onlyinclude&gt;'''Rotational kinetic energy''' is the [[energy]] associated with spinning around on an axis. It's an energy of motion, just like linear [[kinetic energy<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]. [[Molecule]]s get rotational kinetic energy as well, which becomes part of their [[thermal energy]]; this can be seen in the molecule's [[heat capacity</del>]].&lt;/onlyinclude&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[File:flywheel.jpg|thumb|right|400px| Figure 1. A flywheel will exhibit rotational kinetic energy.&lt;ref&gt;flywheel of the Boulton-Watt steam engine", Flickr, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.flickr.com/photos/newtown_grafitti/4803665199. [Accessed: </ins>15<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- Jun- 2018].&lt;/ref&gt;</ins>]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;onlyinclude&gt;'''Rotational kinetic energy''' is the [[energy]] associated with spinning around on an axis. It's an energy of motion, just like linear [[kinetic energy]].&lt;/onlyinclude&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Rotational kinetic energy depends on the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[moment of inertia]], &lt;m&gt;I&lt;/m&gt;, which depends both on </del>mass <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and shape</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The equation for rotational kinetic energy </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">quite similar </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that for </del>kinetic energy<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Rotational kinetic energy depends on<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* How fast </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">object is spinning (faster spinning means more energy).</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* How much </ins>mass <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the spinning object has (more massive means more energy)</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Where the mass </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">located compared </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the spin (objects farther from the spinning axis have more rotational </ins>kinetic energy<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">).</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">m</del>&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">KE_{rot} = </del>\<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">frac</del>{<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1</del>}<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{</del>2<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}I</del>\<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">omega</del>^2&lt;/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">m</del>&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==Physical systems==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Some physical systems where rotational kinetic energy is important include:</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Flywheel]]s (Figure 1) and [[dynamo]]s which spin very fast and have a high moment of [[inertia]] in order to store energy. These have been proposed as possible [[energy storage]] devices.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Molecule]]s get rotational kinetic energy, which becomes part of their [[thermal energy]]; this can be seen in the molecule's [[heat capacity]].</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Turbine]]s are turning the energy in a fluid into rotational kinetic energy. This energy is then turned into [[electricity]] with a [[generator]].</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* The Earth has rotational kinetic energy associated with going spinning around its axis once a [[day]] (roughly 38 Octillian [[Joule]]s).&lt;ref&gt;That's </ins>&lt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">math</ins>&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">3.8</ins>\<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">times 10^</ins>{<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">28</ins>}<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;/math&gt; joules, or 38 billion billion billion joules.&lt;/ref&gt;)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* The Earth has rotational kinetic energy associated with orbiting the [[sun]] once a [[year]] (roughly 2,700,000 Octillian Joules).&lt;ref&gt;That's &lt;math&gt;</ins>2<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.7</ins>\<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">times 10</ins>^<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{33}&lt;/math&gt; joules, or </ins>2<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.7 million billion billion billion joules. Roughly 100,000x the amount of energy of the Earth spinning on its axis.</ins>&lt;/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ref</ins>&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;m&gt;I&lt;/m&gt; is how much the object resists speeding up or slowing down.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;m&gt;\omega&lt;/m&gt; is how fast the object spins around.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Flywheel]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s and </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dynamo</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s spin very fast and have </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">high moment of inertia in order to store energy. These have been proposed as possible </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">energy storage</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">devices.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">To learn more about rotational kinetic energy, please see [http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/rke.html#rke hyperphysics].</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==For Further Reading==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*[[Kinetic energy]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*[[Inertia]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*</ins>[[Flywheel]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*</ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Turbine</ins>]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*[[Thermal energy]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*Or explore </ins>a [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Special:Random|random page</ins>]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; 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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Category:Done 2015-01-15 ]] <br /> &lt;onlyinclude&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Rotational kinetic energy&#039;&#039;&#039; is the [[energy]] associated with spinning around on an axis. It&#039;s an energy of motion, just like linear [[kinetic energy]]. [[Molecule]]s get rotational kinetic energy as well, which becomes part of their [[thermal energy]]; this can be seen in the molecule&#039;s [[heat capacity]].&lt;/onlyinclude&gt;<br /> <br /> Rotational kinetic energy depends on the [[moment of inertia]], &lt;m&gt;I&lt;/m&gt;, which depends both on mass and shape. The equation for rotational kinetic energy is quite similar to that for kinetic energy:<br /> <br /> &lt;m&gt;KE_{rot} = \frac{1}{2}I\omega^2&lt;/m&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;m&gt;I&lt;/m&gt; is how much the object resists speeding up or slowing down.<br /> &lt;m&gt;\omega&lt;/m&gt; is how fast the object spins around.<br /> <br /> [[Flywheel]]s and [[dynamo]]s spin very fast and have a high moment of inertia in order to store energy. These have been proposed as possible [[energy storage]] devices.<br /> <br /> To learn more about rotational kinetic energy, please see [http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/rke.html#rke hyperphysics].<br /> [[Category:Uploaded]]</div>

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