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How would one compute the path of an particle's motion from forces defined in different frames of reference?

I'm trying to write a computer program to render and play-back the path of a particle existing in 2D space given all forces acting on said particle. This is relatively easy to do if all forces are ...
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Why does hot air balloon rotate with the earth?

This might be a silly question but I have been wondering this for quite a while. When a hot air balloon is flying in the sky, the earth is rotating at the speed of 1000 mph. Why does it move along ...
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To find the displacement of a rolling body

When calculating the displacement of a rolling body do we just calculate the displacement due to Vcom in a particular time t or additionally need to consider also the displacement that may be produced ...
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Time Dilation and Spinning Reference Frames

If a spaceship approaches a rapidly spinning planet, would the planet's inhabitants , the inhabitants of the planet where the spaceship came from , and the spaceship's occupants observe time dilation ...
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Is there a bug in this step (and how to fix it?)

Reading an old book of classical mechanics (Spiegel's theoretical mechanics) I came across a passage that I would like to clarify. In order to find the equations of motion of free falling point ...
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Why don't hovercrafts move West relative to the Earth [duplicate]

Suppose that there is a hovercraft floating a few centimetres above the Earth's surface. As it is disconnected from the Earth, which is spinning from West to East, shouldn't it appear to move East to ...
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Directions of static & kinetic friction?

Static friction : Static friction opposes relative motion between two surfaces. The car is moving at some tangential velocity relative to the road. Thus, static friction should act in the opposite ...
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Explain the relative motion between two particles of a rotating rigid body

A rigid body is defined as a collection of particles in which distance between each pair of particles remains constant. I was taught that the motion of any one particle of the rigid body with respect ...
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Why ball fall at same location from where we throw it? [duplicate]

I have a silly question. As we all know earth is rotates at a speed of 460 m per sec. So if I throw a ball in the air for 10 sec than the ball must fall 4600 m away from me but these does not happen ...
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Can we move without moving? [duplicate]

So here is the question, If I jump and hover over the ground for sometime why don't we move away from the point I jumped from? Because earth is rotating so if I hover long enough we should move from ...
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Angular momentum about a moving point

I was used to see the Angular Momentum Principle as: $\dot{\underline{H}_O} = \underline{M}_O^{ext}$ that is, the change in angular momentum equates the external torque w.r.t. a point $O$. Now, I'...
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Relativity of velocity while riding a bike

I was trying to think of a situation in which an observer would be able to determine whether he is moving or not. Since velocity is a relative quantity I was unable to do so. However, consider a ...
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Centrifugal force in inertial systems

My textbook gives an example: There are two systems, $O$ is inertial and $O'$ non inertial. $O'$ is rotating whit $\omega=\mathrm{constant}$ and $O=O'$. We assume that a disc is rotating whit the ...
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Velocity as viewed from space

I got a problem which asks if the speed of a car in Oslo is 50km/hr what will be its speed when viewed from space. I have the relation between the velocities as observed from inertial and non-...
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Simple Rotating frame of reference

I have a car moving in straight line with certain time-varying acceleration and there is another car moving in a curvilinear way along some curved path with some time-varying acceleration. The ...

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