WORK-ENERGY EQUATION FOR TRANSLATION ‘The goneral problem in dynamics is to determine the relation between the force system and the motion of the body or a system of bodies, For a particle or a translating rigid body, wo have to solve the equation R = ma for the acceleration and then integrate one of the equations a= Gove Sor o,.de=vsde, where R= resultant ofthe force systom, Henee, thus using the relation R-=ma_ for the motion of translation, y Wehwve = Rema emaem. 2 om, x8 Rema aes “de de and, by transposing, we get ‘R.ds=mo.dv 4a) Integrating eqn. (a), we get Ras=[" mode=1mio,? 0,9 (8.0) a a 2 ‘The left-hand sido is known as tho revultant work(U, .) done upon tho partielo and the torm + mu? i called the kineti energy (abbreviated as KE). Thus, we got 43.2) ‘Thisis known as work-energy equation for a particle It states that the result- fant workdone upon a particle between positions 1 and 2 is equal to the change in kinetic energy. 2 tog U,g= pop -v,0=