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1、Chapter1:Describingtheuniverse1.Circularmotion.AparticleismovingaroundacirclewithangularvelocityWriteitsvelocityvectorasavectorproductofandthepositionvectorwithrespecttothecenterofthecircle.Justifyyourexpression.Differentiateyourrelation,andhencederivetheangularformofNew
2、ton'ssecondlaw(fromthestandardform(equation1.8).Thedirectionofthevelocityisperpendiculartoandalsototheradiusvectorandisgivenbyputtingyourrightthumbalongthevector:yourfingersthencurlinthedirectionofthevelocity.ThespeedisThusthevectorrelationwewantis:Differentiating,weget:
3、sinceisperpendiculartoThesecondtermistheusualcentripetalterm.Thenandsinceisperpendiculartoandforaparticle2.Findtwovectors,eachperpendiculartothevectorandperpendiculartoeachother.Hint:Usedotandcrossproducts.Determinethetransformationmatrixthatallowsyoutotransformtoanewcoo
4、rdinatesystemwithaxisalongandandaxesalongyourothertwovectors.WecanfindavectorperpendiculartobyrequiringthatAvectorsatsifyingthisis:NowtofindthethirdvectorwechooseTofindthetransformationmatrix,firstwefindthemagnitudeofeachvectorandthecorrespondingunitvectors:andTheelement
5、softhetransformationmatrixaregivenbythedotproductsoftheunitvectorsalongtheoldandnewaxes(equation1.21)Tocheck,weevaluate:asrequired.Similarlyandfinally:3.Showthatthevectors(15,12,16),(-20,9,12)and(0,-4,3)aremutuallyorthogonalandrighthanded.Determinethetransformationmatrix
6、thattransformsfromtheoriginalcordinatesystem,toasystemwithaxisalongaxisalongandaxisalongApplythetransformationtofindcomponentsofthevectorsandintheprimesystem.DiscusstheresultforvectorTwovectorsareorthogonaliftheirdotproductiszero.andFinallySothevectorsaremutuallyorthogon
7、al.InadditionSothevectorsformaright-handedset.Tofindthetransformationmatrix,firstwefindthemagnitudeofeachvectorandthecorrespondingunitvectors.SoSimilarlyandTheelementsofthetransformationmatrixaregivenbythedotproductsoftheunitvectorsalongtheoldandnewaxes(equation1.21)Thus
8、thematrixis:Check:asrequired.Then:andSincethecomponentsofthevectorremainunchanged,thisvectormustliealon