JN3: Practice Activity 2#

../../_images/Door_Wall.png

Fig. 6 Motion of a door \(B\) relative to wall \(A\).#

This notebook continues to build your dynamics knowledge using the door-wall example (see figure above), that was used in Practice Activity 1(PA1). This is an interactive notebook that is a companion to the in-class lectures; specifically this notebook addresses the Practice Activity 2.

The code in Sections 2 and 3 of this notebook are repeated from PA1. Section 4 is adapted from PA1; the modifications in this notebook are to the variable names for the vectors \(\bf v\) and \(\bf e\). The remaining content specifically addresses PA2.

Create scalars using “symbols”#

from sympy import symbols

v, theta, e = symbols('v theta e')

v
\[\displaystyle v\]
theta
\[\displaystyle \theta\]
e
\[\displaystyle e\]

Creating Reference Frames#

A and B are reference frames. Let’s create them using SymPy!

from sympy.physics.mechanics import ReferenceFrame

A = ReferenceFrame('A')

B = ReferenceFrame('B')

Create the vectors in B-frame (slightly modified from PA1)#

In this section, we use the variable names v_vec_B and e_vec_B for \(\bf v\) and \(\bf e\) expressed in the unit vectors of the B referenece frame.

v_vec_B = v*B.x

v_vec_B
\[\displaystyle v\mathbf{\hat{b}_x}\]
e_vec_B = -e*B.y

e_vec_B
\[\displaystyle - e\mathbf{\hat{b}_y}\]

PA2: Use the trignometric functions sine and cosine to rewrite the vectors in the A-frame#

We first import the trignometric functions for sine and cosine from sympy; these are written in their short forms as cos and sin. The importing from sympy is done in the following line:

from sympy import sin, cos

Then, we define the vector \(\bf v\) as expressed in the unit vectors attached to the frame A using the variable name v_vec_A in the following manner:

v_vec_A = v * (cos(theta)*A.x + sin(theta)*A.z)

v_vec_A
\[\displaystyle v \cos{\left(\theta \right)}\mathbf{\hat{a}_x} + v \sin{\left(\theta \right)}\mathbf{\hat{a}_z}\]

Exercsie: Can you write the same for the vector e?#

Can you define the vector \(\bf e\) expressed in the unit vectors attached to the frame A? You should use a variable name e_vec_A to do so in the cell below: