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"Keeping a pencil standing on your hand" What physics topics should I research?
Hi.
My English is not perfect but I'll try my best. This is not a homework. It's a programming question for my simulator project.
Scenario:
- A pencil standing in your hand. It will fall or stand depending on how you move your hand.
- Let's assume that the hand is just an ideal 'plane'.
- Let's assume that a pencil is just a simple, ideal rectangular rigid body object.
- *** Let's assume that a pencil will NOT fall on y-axis. Or in English: It will only fall to the left or right.Variables I have:
- Real-time 'Acceleration' of my hand in x axis. (in m/s/s)
- 'Mass' and 'Volume' of a pencil.
Variables I need:
- The change of 'theta'(angle) between the pencil and my hand(in x-axis) in each time slice. Or you could say d(theta) by d(t)
Questions:
What topic should I research for to relate the acceleration to the angle changes? note:
*** Actually I want to do x,y and z axis but I think if I know how to solve one, I should be able to solve other too.
Thank you in advance! Please let me know if I didn't provide enough information to the problem.
Hi.
My English is not perfect but I'll try my best. This is not a homework. It's a programming question for my simulator project.
Scenario:
- A pencil standing in your hand. It will fall or stand depending on how you move your hand.
- Let's assume that the hand is just an ideal 'plane'.
- Let's assume that a pencil is just a simple, ideal rectangular rigid body object.
- *** Let's assume that a pencil will NOT fall on y-axis. Or in English: It will only fall to the left or right.Variables I have:
- Real-time 'Acceleration' of my hand in x axis. (in m/s/s)
- 'Mass' and 'Volume' of a pencil.
Variables I need:
- The change of 'theta'(angle) between the pencil and my hand(in x-axis) in each time slice. Or you could say d(theta) by d(t)
Questions:
What topic should I research for to relate the acceleration to the angle changes? note:
*** Actually I want to do x,y and z axis but I think if I know how to solve one, I should be able to solve other too.
Thank you in advance! Please let me know if I didn't provide enough information to the problem.
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