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What is the significance of the slope of an angular velocity (y) versus linear velocity (x) graph?
Here we will get the relation between
angular velocity and linear
velocity
as given below,
=
*r
where r is the radius of the circular path
so if we take in y axis and
in
x axis then slope is given by the equation,
slope= y/x
=
/
= 1/r
that is,
/
=
1/r this graph is shown in the
image given below (and also an explanation of getting the graph
)
significance of slope ;
1. It says that as linear velocity tends to infinity the slope asymptotically goes to zero such that there is
an angular
velocity
2. If we consider linear velocity as a
constant then the graph says that
tends to zero as
radius 'r' tends
to infinity that is the slope tends
to zero. That is the angular velocity can never be zero unless
linear velocity is
zero