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See also Simple Harmonic Motion - What are the units for $\omega_0$ ? and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule#Confusion_with_newton-metre Here's a somewhat shorter explanation reflecting my own (possibly incorrect) intuition: Radians aren't "real" units; they're just a trick to keep track of which quantities involve angles and which don't, since it's ...

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As soon as the ball is released from the rod, it starts going in a tangential direction. Since there are no external forces on the system, the linear momentum of the system (ball + motor) must be conserved and the motor starts moving in the opposite direction of the ball with some velocity (depending upon the masses of ball and motor), so that the linear ...

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The direction of the inertia propagation is the direction of the velocity. Any acceleration can be applied to change the velocity. If the acceleration has the same direction of the velocity you will change only its modulo, but if you want to change the direction of the velocity (which is your "line of inertia") you need "a force that push from the side" or, ...

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The centripetal force can actually be measured. If you take the slingshot as an example, while rotating the end-mass you can measure a tension in the stings of the slingshot. If you stop the motion of the end-mass at a certain point in time, you can observe a velocity of the mass, that is tangential to the circular path it is taking over time. The strings ...

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A particle does not have to move in the direction of the acceleration. Acceleration is change in velocity, so the change in velocity is in the direction of acceleration. Velocity, being a vector, obeys certain Laws of vector addition(see traingle law and parallelogram law of vector addition). For example, if two forces(another vector) of equal magnitude are ...

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