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    Rolling coin on larger coin: when does contact break?

    Homework Statement Doing this from a memory of a final exam question from freshman physics that I could not solve 45+ years ago. A coin of radius R is poised at the top of another (fixed) coin of radius 2R. If it rolls with no slip, at what point will the top coin leave the lower coin. (I...