Recent content by wrburns

I guess that's what I'm stuck on: how do I figure out how much is translational and how much is rotational? I know how to sum moments & all that, but according to this website: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/torque.html ... pinned and unpinned objects behave differently when...

Incidentally, I don't think this should have been moved. This is NOT a homework question, and if it's so introductory, I don't know why I've not been able to get a straight answer yet (and I'm not referring to this board).

Hello everyone, I'm working on a basic spaceflight simulator during the break, and I've been unable to come up with some info I need to do the physics. Suppose you have a simple object... say, a beam of dimensions w, h, and d. Then suppose (for example) you apply a constant force at the...