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Graduate Equation of motion for a chain sliding down an edge
I studied physics a long time ago and somebody just asked me this question. After trying for a while I couldn't work it out. The situation is this: there's a chain of length $l$ on a table, of which a portion, of length $x_0$, is hanging out (enough so that when you stop holding it down, the...