Paper 4, Section II, A
(a) Consider an inertial frame , and a frame which rotates with constant angular velocity relative to . The two frames share a common origin. Identify each term in the equation
(b) A small bead of unit mass can slide without friction on a circular hoop of radius . The hoop is horizontal and rotating with constant angular speed about a fixed vertical axis through a point on its circumference.
(i) Using Cartesian axes in the rotating frame , with origin at and -axis along the diameter of the hoop through , write down the position vector of in terms of and the angle shown in the diagram .
(ii) Working again in the rotating frame, find, in terms of and , an expression for the horizontal component of the force exerted by the hoop on the bead.
(iii) For what value of is the bead in stable equilibrium? Find the frequency of small oscillations of the bead about that point.