Recent content by Chaser

Quinzio's video summed up what I meant quite well. I find it hard to believe that any frictional forces from a piece of string or the surrounding air could have had a significant effect on the plate stabilizing around the axis of rotation. The pan he used is quite heavy, so the forces applied...

Er... Wow, that has to be the most well-explained and proven answer I've ever received to a question. Massive thanks for this, it had been giving me quite the headache for about a month now. I'm actually rather surprised you knew exactly what I meant, thanks very much!

Hi, I've been doing some research on rotating objects and moments of inertia, and I've run into a bit of a conundrum. It seems easy to do the math on how quickly an object is turning after a torque when that torque is around either the x, y, or z axis, but not when it is an arbitrary axis. In...