Recent content by mc120

Thanks for the reply SammyS. I'm sorry, I typed within the [ b ] tags thinking they were the "question template" per the sticky FAQ thread. Oops! I understand that I need to figure out what part of the energy is translational and which is rotational, but my equations are not really working...

1. Let’s say we have a solid wheel. The wheel can be modeled as a disk. Imagine that instead, the wheel is rotated at a location location 0.47R from the center of the wheel, so that the wheel rolled around a kind of loop. Essentially, the CM goes around the dashed line in the drawing. R is the...