Recent content by physicStudent

Looking at this site: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1943/if-a-vehicle-is-rolling-down-a-hill-will-its-speed-depend-on-the-size-of-the-wh They seemed to come up with an equation for the acceleration of what could be used for the cart as: a =...

So what would change in the conservation of energy equation to help in deriving this new equation? I assume that I would still be looking for the final velocity of the cart as it reaches the bottom of the ramp, but I'm not sure as to how to include the non-rotating portion of the cart into the...

Homework Statement Out of these various shapes: a wooden disk, a modified wooden disk with four pieces of metal in the middle, a smaller metal disk, a metal hoop, a small metal sphere, and a cart with four small wheels, who will win in a race rolling down a ramp with height h and angle Θ? An...