- Home
- Standard 11
- Physics
$A$ uniform disc is rolling on a horizontal surface. At a certain instant $B$ is the point of contact and $A$ is at height $2R$ from ground, where $R$ is radius of disc.

The magnitude of the angular momentum of the disc about $B$ is thrice that about $A$.
The angular momentum of the disc about $A$ is anticlockwise.
The angular momentum of the disc about $B$ is clockwise
All of the above
Solution
Angular velocity of the disc about any point on itself is constant.
Moment of inertia of a disc about its central axis is given by, $I_{o}=m R^{2} / 2$
Moment of inertia of a disc about an axis passing through a point on it's circumference and parallel to it's central axis is, $I_{c}=I_{o}+m R^{2}=3 m R^{2} / 2$
Therefore angular momentum of disc about $B$ is thrice than that about $A$.
All points on the disc about points $A$ and $B$ rotate clockwise. Therefore, angular moments are clockwise.