Recent content by L'Arrogant

As a student, I constantly think about the program I'm in. I'm an undergrad right now attending a school that's, while private and well funded, not much in rank. It is big, though. I'm also enrolled in a pretty competitive liberal arts college. I'm actually matric there, but not...

If a ball is going through a loop-the-loop, at the top, if mg=m(v^2/r), it will continue around the loop. If mg>Fc, it will fall. In the first case, when mg=Fc, the normal force on the ball from the metal of the loop is 0. This is easy enough to see when the equation from the free body...

I completely agree. The concept of "problem-solving" is counterproductive. People NEED patterns--that's what Math is, right? A way to describe patterns? Physics in itself (the invention of) took some highly non-linear thinking, but an intro physics course does not. This is not because the...