What is tangential velocity?
1 Answer
The velocity working as a rotational or circular motion and touching only at one point is called as tangential velocity.
Explanation:
Take for example a bi-cycle:
When you are driving a bi-cycle the wheels are performing rotational motion. But the wheels are only touching the ground at one point only.
This above example shows that there is tangential velocity.
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In circular motion, take this example:
You have tied a stone with a string (The good old string- stone example). You start to give it a motion in a circular orbit. At any instant or in very short time, on the imaginary orbit the stone is touching only a single point.
This is known as the tangential velocity in a circular motion.
That also how our planets revolves around the sun, the satellites revolves around the planets, etc.
The image shows that the planet has tangential velocity around the sun.
