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Angular displacement

24 May 2020 - Seng Kwang Tan

07 Circular Motion GeoGebra

Tags: angular displacement, circular motion, Geogebra, physics simulations

This GeoGebra app shows the relationship s = .

One activity I get students can do is to look at the value of θ when the arc length s is equal to the radius r. This would give the definition of the radian, which is the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc equal in length to its radius.

Mathematics defines the constant π as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. This can also be shown in the app, although you need to drag the moving point to a point just short of one full revolution.

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