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Rolling Energy Partition

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Total kinetic energy of rigid body rolling without slipping is:

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Subject
physics
Chapter
rotational motion
Topic
rolling energy partition
Difficulty
Medium
Year
2025
Tags
RollingEnergy

Solution

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For an object rolling without slipping, the total kinetic energy () is the sum of:

  1. Translational KE of the center of mass: .
  2. Rotational KE about the center of mass: . Using , we can also write where is the radius of gyration.

This medium difficulty physics question is from the chapter rotational motion, covering the topic of rolling energy partition. It appeared in the 2025 exam.

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