Thank you for your help; I can get the restitution coefficient quite easily actually.
But again the problem I have is calculating this collision theoretically; but I'll sort that out with my physics teacher I think.
If you think you can help, well all I need is a way to calculate the outcome...
Thanks:smile:, but I do use my wacom tablet which(quite accurately surprisingly) transcripts whatever math I write in it into latex code so I can my symbols if I really need them :P.
Yeah, friction is involved, it can't have possibly been something else; what was i thinking?
Anyway I decided...
Thanks!(and thanks for the ω also, I couldn't be bothered to find the ascii code for it :P)
Thats maybe were I'm getting things wrong, but maybe I should explain a bit further; I am also doing this as an experiment for a project and in the experiment the spinning top's ω reduces upon impact(by...
Homework Statement
Ok so I have two objects of different masses {m}_{{1}} for the projectile and {m}_{{2}} for the spinning top. The projectile has only translational kinetic energy in the direction of the arrow (see attached image), with {v}_{{1}} and {v}_{{2}} as initial and final linear...