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Ahh, I see. Thank you for clearing that up.

Assuming you mean F=ma_com, isn't the translational accelleration decreased because some of the force goes to rotation?

That's what I'm attempting to do, but I would like to know how much rotational and translational acceleration. It should vary with r. Edit: also the direction of the translation. The reason I went down the path I did was because that was the answer I found on another forum: separating F into...

I should have been more clear regarding the force that was being applied. It is always to be applied distance r above the COM, in the direction shown. It is not applied to a fixed point on the object. 256Bits: I was also trying to show the parallelogram law of vectors by applying F_t and F_r...

I am having a hard time proving this to myself: Given some object with a known inertial moment and center of mass, with r = distance from COM, do forces of equal magnitude along some line L perpendicular to R all yield the same F_t (translational force) and F_r(rotational force), and how can...