Question

Define translatory motion

Answer 1

Translatory Motion:

1. Motion in which all points of a moving body move uniformly in the same direction.
2. If an object is undergoing translatory motion, we can note that there is no change in the orientation of the object.
3. Translatory motion is also known as translational motion.
4. A body is said to be under a perfect translatory motion when the object moves such that all the particles in the object move parallel to each other.

Example: Consider a solid block, placed on the slanting edge of a right-angled triangle. When the solid block slides down the edge of the right-angled triangle, every point in the rectangular block experiences the same displacement. In a perfect translatory motion, each point of the body experiences the same velocity at all instances of time. Both the points, P1 and P2, undergo the exact same motions. The picture below shows the translatory motion of a solid block.