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How can rigid body have more than 1 speed?
I have a doubt that circular ring is a rigid object and we know every point on the rigid obj must have same velocity or speed. But in case of pure rolling of sphere or others we can find topmost point ...
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How do you determine these coefficients experimentally?
So in our lab today my friend and I had to examine the time it takes for cylinders to roll down an incline.
We managed to find an ansatz on the following form after some work:
$$ t = c(c_1 + x^{c_2})^{...
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Stable Rotation Setup for Experiments (table version)
I am looking for a rotation devise like that one in this video below (from 00:40 seconds). Does anyone know where to get one, or have any idea about how to create a nice and stable rotation setup for ...
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Angular Velocity of a point on a deflated tire (gyroscope measurement)
Before I do the experiment, I am a bit confused about the expected signals provided by a 3-axis gyroscope (angular velocities vs. time) mounted on the edge of a (slightly) deflated car tire when the ...
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Model for rolling gears down a slope doesn't fit experiment
I have derived a model for what happens when one rolls a gear down a slope, and I have performed an experiment, however the experiment doesn't fit the model. Where did I go wrong?
The model
When a ...
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Sources of Error for Lab
I am in AP Physics 1 and we did a lab where we compared a disc rolling down a ramp to a hoop rolling down a ramp. I have completed the lab, but my teacher wants us to come up with 5 sources of error, ...
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How does mass affect slipping?
I experimented by rolling a cylinder down a tube and noticed that by increasing its mass, it's time taken to reach the bottom decreased. However, mass is independent from the time taken. The cylinder ...
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