In a homework problem for this course, students are asked to consider the motion of a system made up of a plate (having a mass of m) which is pinned to a cart B (having a mass of M) at corner O. The ...

A sphere moving on a smooth horizontal surface (the xy-plane) impacts a set of 13 cubes at rest on the same surface. This impacts leads to a number of subsequent impacts among these cubes. The ...

Angular momentum is the rotational version of linear momentum; conservation of angular momentum is the rotational version of Newton’s law of conservation of linear momentum. Conservation of angular ...