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What do people actually mean by “rolling without slipping”?
I have never understood what's the meaning of the sentence "rolling without slipping". Let me explain.
I'll give an example. Yesterday my mechanics professor introduced some concepts of rotational ...
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What is the proof that a force applied on a rigid body will cause it to rotate around its center of mass?
Say I have a rigid body in space. I've read that if I during some short time interval apply a force on the body at some point which is not in line with the center of mass, it would start rotating ...
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Which is the axis of rotation?
This should be simple, but it keeps bothering me. If a rigid body has no fixed axis, and a torque (defined relative to a point $A$) is applied, it will rotate around $A$. But often I can also ...
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Precession of angular velocity about the body-fixed axis
My textbook mentions that under force-free motion of a symmetric top, its angular velocity vector $\overrightarrow \omega$ precesses about the $z$-axis of the body-fixed coordinate system. This seems ...
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how to represent the effect of linking rigid-bodies together?
I have 2 rigid-bodies (b1,b2) if i linked one to the other (as if they are conjoined together) , how to represent b1 effect on b2 and b2 effect on b1
Is there any LAW that affect the ...
