PUMPA - SMART LEARNING

எங்கள் ஆசிரியர்களுடன் 1-ஆன்-1 ஆலோசனை நேரத்தைப் பெறுங்கள். டாப்பர் ஆவதற்கு நாங்கள் பயிற்சி அளிப்போம்

Book Free Demo
Take a piece of thread and tie a small piece of stone at one of its ends. Move the stone to describe a circular path with constant speed by holding the thread at the other end, as shown in Fig.

Now, let the stone go by releasing the thread.

Can you tell the direction in which the stone moves after it is released?

By repeating the activity for a few times and releasing the stone at different positions of the circular path, check whether the direction in which the stone moves remains the same or not.
 
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A stone describing a circular path with a velocity of constant magnitude
 
When you released the stone moves along a  to the circular path. This happens because once the stone is released, it continues to move along the direction it has been moving at that instant.
 
This clearly shows that the direction of motion of that stone is  at every point when the stone was moving along the circular path.
 
If an object moves with  along a circular path, then the motion is called uniform circular motion.
 
When a stone is moving with a constant speed along a circular path, the  of the stone changes due to the change in . Hence it is an  motion.