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When a wheel begins to roll on a flat surface, is it due to fulcrum generated at the contact point by friction?
[Edit: What I'm trying to understand is how any wheel rolls on a surface, instead of just spinning in place. I know that friction provides the force to make the wheel roll, but I'm unsure about the ...
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Energy loss due to friction in Rolling Motion
I understand why rolling motion does no work. My (possibly imprecise) summary of the answer is that net work done is zero. And the role of friction is to convert translational kinetic energy into ...
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Calculating moment of inertia for a hollow cylindrical shell of varying amounts of water within it for an experiment about rotational motion [closed]
I am doing an experiment with the overall research question of: To what extent does the amount of fluid within a hollow cylindrical can affect its dynamics while rolling down an inclined plane
I was ...
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Doubt: (For pure rolling motion and friction)
For pure rolling motion, at the point of contact of the wheel at the ground the net velocity is 0, so there is no relative motion. But if at that instant no relative motion, then how can static ...
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No-circular motion on a turntable
As the title says, I want to model the path of an object sliding on the surface of a turntable, as it is slowly flung off.
The final application of this is , modelling fine material moving along the ...
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Can a torque on the rim of a solid cylinder cause rolling without slipping?
I'm getting stuck on friction (heh). Here's a simplified problem from my textbook illustrating my confusion.
We have a solid cylinder of mass m and radius r, lying on its side on a table, with a ...
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Why is the direction of friction different in case of rolling on plane surface and on an inclined plane?
I was studying the rolling of spherical objects on plane surfaces and inclined planes. I had doubts about the direction of friction in both cases.
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Is there a physics explanation for why dry steering damages tyre?
I used to think dry steering damages tyres because static friction takes place when the car is not moving, as opposed to dynamic friction when the car is moving. (Note: static friction has greater ...
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Friction during rolling
I have four doubts regarding friction during rolling.
Does slipping mean zero angular velocity, or is it just the $v$ velocity not being equal to $\omega r$?
If a wheel is initially given the ...
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Question about rolling and slipping of a cylinder for example down an inclined plane
What is the point at which sliding occurs?
I know sliding is when the $V_{cm}$ goes faster than the point of contact on the ground. But I've been reading that sliding occurs when the total torque on ...
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The ball-in-cylinder problem I've encountered
This is going to be one of the most childish questions ever asked on this site but hear me out.
Today, as I'm fiddling around with balls and toilet rolls (as one does), I found something interesting ...
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Conservation of energy of 2 identical Rolling Disks with and without friction
My physics book claims that if two identical disks moving at the same velocity travel up nearly identical hills, with the second hill not having friction, then the disk rolling up the first hill will ...
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How friction force synchronize linear velocity and angular velocity? [closed]
I am doing a simulation about moving balls on a surface. There are frictions between different balls and the surface. In the beginning, balls have a linear velocity and an angular velocity (which are ...
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Billiard ball with side spin
A cue ball is travelling along a snooker table. Initially, it has only side spin (yaw). As it travels it will develop a rolling spin (pitch).
Can the ball develop any (roll) and thus move off the ...
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Why does friction not accelerate a wheel?
It seems like a silly question because this defies common sense, but it appears that friction is supposed to accelerate a wheel (not attached to anything).
We can derive from Newton's laws that $\...
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