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Relating Circular Motion to SHM

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A particle moves in a circular path with a continuously increasing speed. Its motion is
(a) periodic
(b) oscillatory
(c) simple harmonic
(d) none of them

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Solution

(d) none of them

As the particle does not complete one rotation in a fixed interval of time, neither does it oscillate around a mean position.

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