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Calculate Rotational Intertia
If a can of soup, and a can of beans (tightly packed), are set in a race down a rough hill (has friction), the soup wins, because the inside of the can (soup) is not drawing energy from the system.
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Kinetic Energy And Rotational Motion
The problem is, "A metal can containing condensed mushroom soup has mass 220 g, height 11.0 cm and diameter 6.38 cm. It is placed at rest on its side at the top of a 3.00-m-long incline that is at ...
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Finding Rotational Kinetic Energy Of A Clock
The problem I am working on is:
"Big Ben, the Parliament tower clock in London, has an hour hand 2.70 m long with a mass of 300 kg, and a minute hand 4.20 m long with a mass of 100 kg (see figure ...
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Tensions And Pulleys With Masses
The problem I am working on is:
"A block of mass m1 = 1.80 kg and a block of mass m2 = 6.30 kg are connected by a massless string over a pulley in the shape of a solid disk having radius R = 0.250 m ...
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Calculating Moment Of Inertia
The problem I am working on is:
A uniform, thin, solid door has height 2.10 m, width 0.835 m, and mass 24.0 kg.
(a) Find its moment of inertia for rotation on its hinges.
(b) Is any ...
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Moment of inertia of a coin
I have a a coin infinitely thin, rotating along the diameter.
How to derive the formula for it's moment of inertia passing through the diameter.
I was suggested to use the surface density and ...
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Pushing, inertia of a cart system
I have a cart with another cart on top which gets pulled down by another cart on the side. There is no friction.
The question is:
How strongly do I have to push with $F$ to keep the cart $m_1$ ...
