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This is what I'm concerned about - the experiment has already been conducted but it's proving really quite tricky to model this, I think partly as well because there's no obvious pivot point that remains stationary. Any thoughts on how to overcome this would be most welcome!

Hi, thank you for responding The reason I'm actually asking this is for a student I'm tutoring who has carried out this experiment, we're now just trying to find a theory to put in the lab report so that it can be written up in a logical manner with some sort of hypothesis. The student...

So I need to find equations for the force required to tip over a cylindrical object. This is fairly straight forward in the case when the force is applied above the centre of mass, by taking moments about the pivot corner. However, in the case where the force is applied below the centre of mass...