Refers to the orientation of a line with another line or plane.
What is angular position?
Imaginary plane running side to side and superior and inferior dividing the body into anterior (front) and posterior (back) parts.
What is frontal, coronal, or lateral plane?
Chuck Norris performs a 150° roundhouse kick in Walker, Texas Ranger. What is this in radians?
2.62 radians
Sasha Cohen does a triple toe loop and rotates three times around in 1 s. What is her average angular speed during this jump?
3 rev/s
This animal consumes water by making its tongue into a ladle-like shape and scoops water to itself.
What is a dog?

A unit of measure for an angle that is the ratio of the arc length divided by the radius.
What is radians?
Imaginary plane running anterior (front) to posterior (back).
What is anteroposterior plane or sagittal plane?
80 pi radians/s or 251.2 radians/s.
During a discus throw, Anthony's arm rotates 20 rad/s, and the discus is 1.5 m from the axis of rotation when he releases it. John's arm rotates 30 rad/s, and the discus is 1.1 m from the axis of rotation when he releases it. Whose discus throw is most likely to be farther?
John's
This animal has essentially 9 brains, 3 hearts, and blue blood.
What is an octopus? ![]()
The change in absolute angular position experienced by a rotating line.
What is angular displacement?
Imaginary plane that runs side to side and anterior to posterior horizontally and divides the body into superior and inferior parts.
What is transverse or horizontal plane?
What is the average angular velocity of an object moving through 60° in 2 s?
Angular velocity = 30°/s
During a drive by golfer Ai Miyazato, the angular velocity of her club is zero at the top of the backswing and 30 rad/s at the bottom of the downswing just before impact with the ball. If the downswing lasts 0.30 s, what is the average angular acceleration of the club during the downswing?
100 rad/s2
This is the smallest national park in the United States.
What is the gateway arch of St Louis?
The rate of change of angular displacement.
What is angular velocity?
The component of linear acceleration tangent to the circular path of a point on a rotating object.
What is tangential acceleration?
Mike runs in lane one around a curve, while Maurice runs in lane eight around a curve. The radius of lane eight is twice as big as the radius of lane one. If Mike has to run 50 m to get fully around the curve in lane one, how far does Maurice have to run to get fully around the curve in lane eight?
hint: arc length (s) = rΔθ
arc length = 100 m
During Charlie’s golf drive, the angular velocity of his club is zero at the top of the backswing and 20 rad/s at the bottom of the downswing just before ball impact. The downswing lasts 0.20 s, and the distance from the club head to the axis of rotation is 2.0 m at the bottom of the downswing. a) What is the average angular acceleration of the club during the downswing? b) What is the linear velocity of the club head just before impact with the ball?
a) 100 rad/s2
b) 40 m/s
This animal's heart differs in where it lives in the body based on the type of habitation this animal lives in -- in trees, the heart is closer to the head, while on the ground, its heart is further down the body.
What is a snake?
The rate of change of angular velocity.
What is angular acceleration?
The component of linear acceleration that is directed towards the center of the circle (towards axis of rotation).
What is centripetal acceleration?
During Charlie’s golf drive, the angular velocity of his club is zero at the top of the backswing and 20 rad/s at the bottom of the downswing just before ball impact. The downswing lasts 0.20 s, and the distance from the club head to the axis of rotation is 2.0 m at the bottom of the downswing. a) What is the average angular acceleration of the club during the downswing? b) What is the linear velocity of the club head just before impact with the ball?
ωi = 0 rad/s, ωf = 20 rad/s, Δt = 0.20 s, r = 2.0m
a) α = ωf - ωi /Δt = (20 rad/s - 0)/0.20 s = 100 rad/s2
b) V = ωr = 20 rad/s*2.0 m = 40 m/s
A hammer thrower, Brandon, spins with an angular velocity of 1200°/s. The distance from his axis of rotation to the hammer head is 1.2 m. a) What is the linear velocity of the hammer head? b) What is the centripetal acceleration of the hammer head?
a) 25.1 m/s
b) 524-525 m/s2
The speed of this animal's claw snap is so fast that it creates a bubble as hot as the sun (4,700°C to 4,800°C (8,500°F to 9,000°F).
What is a pistol shrimp? 