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    Conservation of angular momentum in a two ball collision

    Not sure I understand the question. When the two balls come into contact, it would be as if they are locking gears with no slip. If, for example, the first ball is spinning and the second one is not, it would transfer some of it's angular momentum to the spin of the other ball, with no energy...
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    Conservation of angular momentum in a two ball collision

    I have broken to problem into two parts. The first part is to assume a non-elastic collision with energy lost to a theoretical clock spring that will be recovered later. Conservation of linear and angular momentum are conserved resulting in a Vfs (s for system), the same for both balls, and ωfs...
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    Conservation of angular momentum in a two ball collision

    The spinning axis would be out of the plane, in the z direction. Two circles in the x, y plane, both spinning in the z direction,
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    Conservation of angular momentum in a two ball collision

    I assume you are referring to the two orthogonal directions, say X and Y. I have solved the X direction (through to center points of the two balls, and the center point of contact. I am now attempting to solve in the Y direction (tangential to the ball surface). But just in this direction there...
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    Exploring Alternate Models of Physics: A Software Engineer's Perspective

    No, I don't mean in the "SciFi" sense. I am here mainly to test my knowledge, and have questions about accepted known physics with the people on this forum. I will then test my alternate models against this, elsewhere, of course. Just so people know where I'm coming from.
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    Conservation of angular momentum in a two ball collision

    I have two balls spinning with v1, omega1 and v2, omega2. They collide elastically with no tangential slip, resulting in new values for v1, omega1 and v2, omega2. I have the two components v1 & v2 figured out in the plane of contact, where angular momentum does not come into play. But I am still...
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    Exploring Alternate Models of Physics: A Software Engineer's Perspective

    I dabble in building software models of alternate physical theories
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