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What is the centripetal force when a bar rotates about its center of mass?
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The centripetal force acting on the ball towards the center of rotation is $\frac{mv^2}{r}$, where $m =$ mass of the ball, $v =$ magnitude of the instantaneous linear velocity of the ball,...
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What happens when you pull in on a rotating object? [duplicate]
I was wondering how rotating objects would behave if we pulled them inwards DURING rotation?
For example-
If I was initially spinning a rock attached to a string in a uniform circular motion
and then (...
