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Which Reaches the Bottom First?
Francisco Javier Gómez TarínJordi Solbessubject
PhysicsFísicaGeneral Physics and AstronomyMechanical engineeringCiència ExperimentsCiència EnsenyamentEducationRotational energyMomentumAccelerationClassical mechanicsSimple (abstract algebra)Point (geometry)Laboratory experimentRotational dynamicsEnergy (signal processing)description
A well-known classroom demonstration involves the rolling of hollow and solid objects down an incline.1 The fact that the objects roll at different rates can be used as a starting point in introducing students to rotational dynamics and rotational kinetic energy. In this paper we describe a simple quantitative version of the demonstration that is suitable for use as a laboratory experiment.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-12-01 | The Physics Teacher |