Question

Name the type/types of motion being performed by each of the following:

(a) Vehicle on a straight road

(b) Blades of an electric fan in motion

(c) Pendulum of a wall clock

(d) Smoke particles from chimney

(e) Hands of a clock

(f) Earth around the sun

(g) A spinning top.

Answer 1

(a) Rectilinear motion

(b) Rotatory motion

(c) Oscillatory motion, periodic motion

(d) Non-periodic motion

(e) Uniform circular and periodic motion

(f) Rotatory motion, circular motion and periodic motion

(g) Rotatory motion