Thanks for the help, that cleared up most of what I was confused about. I guess I just needed some help visualizing what I needed to do. There is one part of your explanation that I am still a bit confused about though and that was about calculating the instantaneous angular velocity. I tried...
Alright, so I am a programmer. I am writing a physics engine for a project at school and I am having a lot of trouble understanding rotational physics. As of now, the tools I have to work with are the point of collision for an object, it's velocity, it's acceleration (gravity), and it's center...