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Hey all, Thank you for the comments. As it turns out, I was not trying to model two point masses, but rather just use the top and the bottom of the slinky as generalized coordinates. As it was pointed out, this is still invalid because the center of mass is not at the center of those two...

Homework Statement Hi everyone! This is not actually a homework problem, but I thought it was similar to one so I am putting it here. Basically I was watching this youtube video of a falling slinky and I decided I wanted to try modelling it with physical equations: The problem I have...