Showing posts with label math proof angular speed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math proof angular speed. Show all posts

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Angular to linear speed

It is quite intuitive that the linear speed for a point rotating around the origin at distance R is wR if w is the angular speed.
Since we are very much concerned about proofs in our math project, here is a proof.
I found it interesting how such an intuitive equation actually passes through quite some transformations, most relevantly, it is the chain rule and the trigonometric derivatives that play a crucial role, a little bit less intuitive than one might think!