A Cloth Tape Is Wound Around The Outside
A Cloth Tape Is Wound Around The Outside. Near the surface of the earth, a cloth tape is wound around the outside of the two uniform solid cylinders shown in the figure. The cylinder is held with the tape vertical and then released from rest.
The cylinder is held with the tape vertical and then released from rest. A cloth tape is also wound around the outside of a uniform cylinder with the same mass m and the same radius r, but with moment of inertia i cylinder = mr2/2. As the cylinder descends, it unwinds from the tape without slipping.