Question: B 2 . ( a ) At a particular instant an airplane is diving downwards at a 3 0 degrees angle with respect to the

B2.(a) At a particular instant an airplane is diving downwards at a 30 degrees angle with respect to the horizontal. It's engine is off and it is travelling at a speed of \(800\mathrm{~km}/\mathrm{hr}\). Due to aerodynamic lift, its instantaneous acceleration is 3.0 g in the upward direction, where \( g \) is gravitational acceleration on Earth surface.
(i) Determine the rate of speed change of the airplane.
(2 marks)
(ii) Determine the radius of curvature of the path.
(3 marks)
(b) By starting from first principles and performing an integration, determine the mass moment of inertia of a uniform bar of mass \( m \) and length \( L \) about an axis through the center perpendicular to the length. Describe how the moment of inertia changes if the rotation axis is moved to the end of the bar.
(5 marks)
(c) The figure below shows a tilting device that maintains a sloshing water bath for washing vegetable produce. The crank OA oscillates about the vertical axis.
(i) The crank OA has a clockwise angular velocity of \(4\pi \mathrm{rad}/\mathrm{s}\) when it is exactly vertical. Determine the angular velocity of the basket in the position shown where \(\theta=30\) degrees.
(ii) If the angle \(\theta \) is increased to 45 degrees, describe how the angular velocity of the basket in this position is affected.
B 2 . ( a ) At a particular instant an airplane

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