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Question: The output frequency of the wind turbine is \[50Hz\]. What is meant by this statement?...

The output frequency of the wind turbine is 50Hz50Hz. What is meant by this statement?

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Solution

The output frequency is the output produced by the wind turbine. So it represents the speed of the turbine or rotor in the turbine. This means that the frequency of voltage generated by the wind turbine is 50Hz50Hz even if the wind is of fluctuating form The term speed means how fast or slows an object moves. Similarly, angular speed tells us how fast or slow an object rotates. It is as simple as that. In other words, it can be defined as the change in the angle of the object per unit of time. The angular speed is usually used to describe the speed of the rotational motion. The angular speed is measured in radians.

Complete answer:
We know that the angular speed determines the rate at which an object changes its angles which is measured in radians in a given time. As for how the speed is a magnitude, angular speed is also a magnitude. The formula for the angular speed is as follows.
ω=θt\omega = \dfrac{\theta }{t}
Over here, ω\omega refers to the angular speed in radians/sec
θ\theta refers to the angle in radians. (2πradians2\pi radians = 360degrees 360degrees)
tt Refers to the time in seconds.
We can also write the angular speed formula as,
ω=2πf\omega = 2\pi f
Over here 2π2\pi represents the angle.
ffRepresents the frequency (f=1tf = \dfrac{1}{t})
From the question, if we substitute for ff=50Hz50Hz in the above formula we get,
ω=2×π×50\omega = 2 \times \pi \times 50
ω=100πrad/sec\omega = 100\pi rad/\sec
This means that the speed of the turbine is 100\pi $$$$rad/\sec . Which means that the turbine rotates 100π100\pi radian in one second.
So the statement in the question represents the speed of the turbine or rotor.

Note:
To calculate the angular speed the angle we measure is in radians. The way of measuring angles is said to be radians. One full revolution will contain around 6.28radians6.28radians. Also, the angular speed and angular velocity make use of the same formula but the difference between the two is as we have seen before angular speed is a scalar quantity but angular velocity is a vector quantity.