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| Oct 8, 2020 at 21:43 | comment | added | David White | I've done this demo in a high school physics class. | |
| Dec 22, 2015 at 14:56 | history | edited | Carl Witthoft | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added a reference.
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| Dec 22, 2015 at 14:45 | comment | added | Oscar Bravo | I think you've got it, though you might like to put the word inertia in your answer somewhere. Taking the experiment to its limits; if we simply lobbed the broomstick up into the air and then whacked it really fast while it was at the top of its trajectory, we would get the same result - even though the stick was not being supported by anything! | |
| Dec 22, 2015 at 13:30 | history | answered | Carl Witthoft | CC BY-SA 3.0 |