frictionless, the corresponding constraint forces are of the form
3
3CC
R=Ri
,
1133
R=Ri,
2233
R=Ri, which leads to
12
0RR==
,
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3C
RR R R=++
,
1
223
C
MhR= ,
2
113
C
MhR=− ,
3
0
C
M = . Associating adequate initial conditions of
Cauchy type, we notice that the third equation (14.2.25') determines the angular
velocity
()t=ωω; then the first two equations (14.2.25) give the components
()
Cj Cj
vvt
′′
= , 1, 2j = , of the velocity of the mass centre C with respect to the inertial
frame of reference. In this case too, we can adopt correspondingly the theorem of
existence and uniqueness. The first two equations (14.2.25') allow to calculate the
components
23
R and
13
R of the constraint forces, while the third equation (14.2.25)
specifies the constraint force
3C
R . Thus, the plane-parallel motion of the rigid solid is
statically determinate; in the case in which the number of the points of the solid which
coincide all the time with the fixed plane is greater than three, then the problem
becomes statically indeterminate (due to the model of rigid solid adopted). If the motion
of the rigid solid is a plane-parallel one, the constraint forces vanishing, one must have
=
3
0R ; hence, the resultant of the given forces must be parallel to the fixed plane. The
moment of the given forces is directed along the normal to the fixed plane
(
12
0
CC
MM==) if and only if the
3
Cx -axis is a central principal axis of inertia,
hence if
23 31
0II==
. In this case, the pseudomoment of momentum
C
K has the
components
1
const
C
K =
,
2
const
C
K =
; because at the initial moment we have
12
0
CC
KK==, it results that during the motion we have
33
CC
K=Ki.
Le be a rigid straight bar AB of length 2l, which is moving in the fixed plane
′′′
12
Oxx (in a modelling of unidimensional solid). Assuming that the bar is
homogeneous, of linear density
μ, the mass centre will be at its middle; in the same
fixed plane, we consider also the non-inertial frames of reference
12
Cx x (the axes of
which are parallel to the axes of the inertial frame
′′′
12
Oxx ) and
12
Cx x
, the axis
1
Cx
being along the bar. The position of the bar will be specified by the co-ordinates
1
ρ
′
and
2
ρ
′
of the centre of mass and by the angle θ, made by the
1
Cx -axis with the
1
Cx -axis.
Because of the symmetry, the
1
Cx
-axis is a central principal axis of inertia, any normal
axis at C to that one having the same property; thus, we have
23 31
0II==. On the
other hand,
2
33 1 1
d
l
l
Ixxμ
−
=
∫
, so that
32
33
2/3 /3IlMlμ==, where = 2Mlμ is
the mass of the bar.
We assume that the bar is in a vertical plane and is subjected to the action of its own
weight
M=Gg; its centre of mass C is connected to the fixed point
′
O
by an
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inextensible thread (in which arises the tension T ) (Fig. 14.15a). It results
C
=M0 so
that
= 0ω
, wherefrom
00
tθω θ=+
,
0
θ
and
0
ω corresponding to the position and to