SOLUTION: A truck covers a distance of 50 meters in an hour. Find the angular velocity (in radian per second) of the truck if the diameter of the tire is 200 meters?

Question 1091706: A truck covers a distance of 50 meters in an hour. Find the angular velocity (in radian per second) of the truck if the diameter of the tire is 200 meters?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A truck covers a distance of 50 meters in an hour. Find the angular velocity (in radian per second) of the truck if the diameter of the tire is 200 meters?
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That's a big tire, and a slow truck.
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Each revolution covers pi*d meters = 200pi meters.
50 m/200pi m = 1/(4pi) revolutions in 1 hour
--> (1/4pi) rev/3600 sec
= (1/4pi)*2pi rad/3600 sec
= 1/7200 rad/sec

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