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DylanG
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Just a simple question. I can see that for this to work I need:
Trot = 1/5 ma2(thetaDOT + phiDOT)2
Just can't work out what phi has to do with rotational kinetic energy. I would have thought it would need to be simply the same thing but without the phiDOT term.
Just a simple question. I can see that for this to work I need:
Trot = 1/5 ma2(thetaDOT + phiDOT)2
Just can't work out what phi has to do with rotational kinetic energy. I would have thought it would need to be simply the same thing but without the phiDOT term.
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