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Calculating the path of a ball with spin moving across a table
A ping pong ball is rolling over a smooth (but not frictionless) table. During its travel, a clockwise spin is placed on the ball. The ball's path is changed to move to the right (in perspective from ...
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What is a natural movement of a ball on a upward curve (the two arrow lines pointing upward) given no external force?
If you drop a ball down a upward curving parabolic ramp, what is the expected movement of the ball? Assume the ball is set into motion with no external force.
Would it go all the way from point A to ...
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Static Friction - Only thing that can accelerate a train?
I'm a computer programmer that never studied physics in school and now it's coming back to bite me a bit in some of the stuff I'm being asked to program. I'm trying to self study some physics and ...
