Question

A wheel spins at 300 revolutions per minute. What is the angular velocity of the wheel, in radians per second? Round the answer to the nearest hundredth. The angular velocity is approximately radians per second.

Answer 1

well, this is just a matter of simple unit conversion, so let's recall that one revolution on a circle is just one-go-around, radians wise that'll be 2π, and we also know that 1 minute has 60 seconds, let's use those values for our product.

$\cfrac{300~~\begin{matrix} r \\[-0.7em]\cline{1-1}\\[-5pt]\end{matrix}~~ }{~~\begin{matrix} min \\[-0.7em]\cline{1-1}\\[-5pt]\end{matrix}~~ }\cdot \cfrac{2\pi ~rad}{~~\begin{matrix} r \\[-0.7em]\cline{1-1}\\[-5pt]\end{matrix}~~ }\cdot \cfrac{~~\begin{matrix} min \\[-0.7em]\cline{1-1}\\[-5pt]\end{matrix}~~ }{60secs}\implies \cfrac{(300)(2\pi )rad}{60secs}\implies 10\pi ~\frac{rad}{secs}\approx 31.42~\frac{rad}{secs}$