October Stuff

Week of Oct 13 - Please read these notes on calculating moments of inertia: 1, 2, 3 and 4 and this note on rolling and slipping.

Oct 15 - This Caltech note on tops and precession might be fun

Week of Oct 6

World famous quantum collisionist Betsey Abrams

I want to remind you that this week we discussed how to view scattering in the CM and the LAB frames. These notes discuss this in detail

 

Oct 3

We discussed the elastic collision of two masses - one with three times the mass of the other. This movie shows one cycle of the cyclic process: collision.mov

 

Oct 2

Neat rocket problem and solution

Oct 1

We had a pizza party but still did some work. You might want to check out these notes on the leaky coke can and the falling chain