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On another note, to help you understand the difference between a rigid rod and a string; imagine you picked up a string with the ball attached to it. Now imagine you also had a stick/rod which has a ball attached to it. Now for the string+ball system, if you aim the ball towards the floor; the...

A wonderful way to build intuition for this problem is to first recall the classic case of two masses connected by an ideal rope. An ideal rope is taut and stores no elastic potential energy; its sole role is to enforce a distance constraint between the two blocks: $$\lvert x_2 - x_1 \rvert =...

After reading this, i have a better understanding of Tensor Algebra. It seems that Tensor Algebra is a book keeping system, we keep track of all possible multiplication routes between vectors. Later, we can then impose a specific restriction, taking a quotient algebra, to deal with certain...

Good Afternoon from Australia, I am a postgraduate student at the University of New South Wales; i look forward to engaging with like minds on here and hopefully learning new things as well.