Disc Definition and 374 Threads
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Disc lifted by pressurized air in a vertical tube
Hello, I have a circular pipe where there is an inbuild pressure and I have kept a circular weight on it. I would like to know what would be the lift of the weight under certain pressure. I know the relation that the minimum weight required to keep the pipe closed is F = P*A. (this F will be...- jmex
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- Ball Disc Lift
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- Forum: Mechanical Engineering
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Are the Force Equations for Rotational Motion Accurate?
Writing force equations for block ##m## : $$T-mr\omega^2=m\ddot{r}$$ and for block ##M## : $$Mg-T=M\ddot{r}$$ I think there are mistakes in my equations as they are leading to nowhere and morever i think force methods are really risky in this regard . It would be better to write the total energy...- Bling Fizikst
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- Disc Energy Oscillations
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Rigid Body Problem Involving a Tilted Rotating Disc
Using these equations, I find L=0.02Nms, I=0.02Kgm^2 and KE=10mJ However, i don't think that this is the right method here.- Peter564
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- Body Disc Rigid body Rotating Rotating disc
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Acrylic (PMMA) rotating disc tensile strength calculation
Hey folks, I've been looking around but can't piece this together as there are more than one equation and variable to take into account. My situation - I have a pmma material disc on an axis , the center hole (axis hole) is 20mm wide so a radius of 10mm, while the outer edge is at a radius of...- artis
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- Calculation Disc Rotating Rotating disc Strength Tensile Tensile strength
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- Forum: General Engineering
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Efficient hit detection on a shot plate with piezo disc
Hello to all, I wish to detect the hit of a airsoft pellet on a shot plate with an ESP32 board. to do this I have basically two options: Either, detect the signal as digital (hit / missed) or detect the signal as analog signal with a piezo disks. The analog signal will have more information...- matthieu1973
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- Detection Disc Piezo Plate
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- Forum: Mechanical Engineering
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2 Cords affixed at different points are wrapped on a disc
The hint says the following: "Since the cords are inextensible, every particle of a cord must be in circular motion about the point where it is affixed to the ceiling. Therefore, the velocities of the points where the cords are leaving the disc are perpendicular to the string" Due to the fact...- Father_Ing
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- Disc Homework and exercise Points
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Conditions inside a protoplanetary disc
Summary:: Conditions inside a protoplanetary disc. I have just finished writing a fictional story that takes place inside a protoplanetary disc. Now I think I should determine how realistic it is. My question -- Somewhere in a typical PP disc, the gas pressure would be in the range of one...- Galexy
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- Conditions Disc
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- Forum: Sci-Fi Writing and World Building
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I Solving for Angular Velocity After a Disc Collision
Hello to everyone, first of all shame on me I has to ask and can not figure out it by myself... The problem is I am trying to code game where two homogenous discs with same mass and same diameter, no fricition due to gravitational forces, can collide. I can figure out the speed and direction...- daavid
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- Angular Angular velocity Collision Collison Disc Velocity
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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How Does Torque Affect the Motion of a Disc Pulled Across a Table?
I started out by drawing a diagram: So I thought I would try torque with the axis of rotation in the center: ##T_1R = \frac{Mr^2}{2}\alpha## and given that ##T_1## is equal to ##F## in the positive direction. ##\alpha = 266.6 \frac{rad}{s^2}## Then knowing the relationship between angular...- ago01
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- Disc Table
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Find the maximum KE of a charged Disc
To find the initial potential energy of the system we can assume the disc to be placed inside a hollow sphere of the same radius and ##\sigma##, the potential energy inside a charged hollow shell is: $$V = \frac{\sigma(4\pi R^2)}{4\pi \epsilon_0 R} = \frac{\sigma R}{\epsilon_0}$$ the potential...- Hamiltonian
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- Charged Disc Maximum
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Atmospheric pressure inside a protoplanetary disc
Summary:: Could there be a place in a newly forming protoplanetary disc where the gas pressure and temperature would be anywhere close to survivable? I am writing a fiction story that takes place there, and I want to know how far from reality this premise would be. When a protoplanetary disc...- Galexy
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- Atmospheric Atmospheric pressure Disc Pressure
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- Forum: Sci-Fi Writing and World Building
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Oscillations of a disc with a smaller disc removed (Feynman ex. 17.23)
A disc of radius ##a## has a smaller disc of radius ##a/2## removed. The resulting object has mass ##m##: The centre of mass ##G## is a distance ##h = \dfrac{\pi a^3 - \dfrac{3\pi a^3}{8} }{\dfrac{3\pi a^2}{4}} = \dfrac{5a}{6}## from the edge. The moment of inertia of the shape about the...- ergospherical
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- Disc Oscillations
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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I How Does the Book's Formula for Angular Momentum Differ from Mine?
A disc initially has angular velocities as shown It's angular momentum along the y-axis initially is ##L_s## I tried to find its angular momentum and ended up with this:##L=I_{x} \omega_{x}+I_{y} w_{y}+I_{z} z_{z}##The z component of angular momentum is thus ##L_{z}=I_{z} \omega_{z}## However... -
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I Trying to rotate a disc about two perpendicular axes
I've a disc which can rotate freely about two perpendicular axis (fixed to the body) If I simultaneous try to rotate it about the two axis, what will happen?- Kashmir
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- Axes Disc Newtonian mechanics Perpendicular Rotate Rotating bodies
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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Moment of inertia of a disc using rods as differential elements
I know there are more convenient differential elements that can be chosen to compute the moment of inertia of a disc(like rings). the mass of the differential element: $$dm = (M/\pi R^2) (dA) = (M/ \pi R^2) (2\sqrt{R^2 - y^2})(dy)$$ the moment of inertia of a rod through its COM is...- Hamiltonian
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- Differential Disc Elements Inertia Moment Moment of inertia
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Observation about the rotation of a disc
Someone that I tutor asked a simple but pretty good question today which I thought I'd share the answer to. In a tidied up form: a disc with centre at the origin and central axis parallel to a unit vector ##\mathbf{n}## in the ##xy## plane rotates with a constant angular velocity...- etotheipi
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- Disc Observation Rotation
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- Forum: Mechanics
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Terminal angular velocity of Disc in magnetic field
Torque appiled by smaller disc = mga emf of disc due to B = Bwr2/2 Current I = Bwr2/2R force = IBr = Bwr3/2r torque = rF = Bwr4/2r mga = Bwr4/2r- Advay
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- Angular Angular velocity Disc Field Magnetic Magnetic field Velocity
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Elastic collision of particle and rotating disc
Consider the system of the mass and uniform disc. Since no external forces act on the system, the angular momentum will be conserved. For elastic collision, the kinetic energy of the system stays constant.Measuring angular momentum from the hinge: ##\vec L_i = Rmv_0 \space\hat i + I \omega_0...- PiEpsilon
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- Angular momentum Collision Conservation laws Disc Elastic Elastic collision Newtonian mechanics Particle Rotating Rotating disc
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Thin disc with high thermal conductivity
I've tried to explicitly solve the Fourier's equation in cylindrical coordinates but I'm getting some messy integrals which cannot be solved analytically. Additionally my instructor said that there's a neat trick for this problem and it's possible to obtain the answer in a rather elementary...- Rlwe
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- Conductivity Disc Heat conduction Heat equation Laplace's equation Thermal Thermal conductivity
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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B Accuracy of a smith's crafted metal disc
The area of a circular disc with radius ##r## is ##A=\pi r^2\;\mbox{cm}^2##. A smith must make a circular metal disc of ##400\pi\;\mbox{cm}^2## with an accuracy of ##\pm{5}\;\mbox{cm}^2##. Which accuracy range must have a ##20\;\mbox{cm}## disc? Answer The metal worker wants to obtain ##|\pi...- mcastillo356
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- Accuracy Disc
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- Forum: General Math
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To find the angular momentum of a disc
I was first wondering wether we can solve this question by applying conservation or energy or not but after googling it I found that we can't apply conservation of energy since there will be some energy lost in this case. I don't know how this energy is getting lost. My second doubt was if we...- PSN03
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- Angular Angular momentum Disc Momentum Rotational kinematics
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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How can I find the velocity of a point on a disk rotating in a disc?
From a freebody analysis I got, $$ \vec{r} \times \vec{F} = |r| |F| \sin( 90 - \theta) = (R-r) mg \cos \theta$$ and, this is equal to $$ I \alpha_1$$ where the alpha_1 is the angular acceleration of center of mass of small circle around big one, $$ I \alpha = (R-r) mg \cos \theta$$ Now...- burian
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- Circle Disc Disk Rotating Rotation
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Angular momentum of a rotating disc
"A smooth horizontal disc rotates with a constant angular velocity ω about a stationary vertical axis passing through its centre, the point O. At a moment t=0 a disc is set in motion from that point with velocity v0. Find the angular momentum M(t) of the disc relative to the point O in the...- LCSphysicist
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- Angular Angular momentum Disc Momentum Rotating Rotating disc
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Prop disc thrust uniformity in turns vs wing position
I would like to know what is the current consensus on the effect of the position of the wing relative to a tractive propeller disc's uniformity of thrust (the focus configuration would be WWII fighters).- WrathofAtlantis
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- Disc Position Thrust Uniformity
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- Forum: Aerospace Engineering
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MHB Physics 12u - Two masses Spinning on a disc
A penny of mass 3.10 g rests on a small 20.0-g block supported by a spinning disk. The block is sitting at the edge of the disc at a radius of 12 cm. If the coefficient of friction between block and disk are 0.750 (static) and 0.640 (kinetic) while those for the penny and block are 0.450...- Wild ownz al
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- Disc Physics Spinning Two masses
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- Forum: General Math
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Revolving disc in a magnetic field
I know that there is a known equation to calculate the magnetic field strength of a rotating disc which I have made use of in here Do you agree that revs per minute of the disc turns out to be 9337 rpm? Thanks for any help! Much appreciated- Bolter
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- Disc Field Magnetic Magnetic field
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Automotive Placement of disc brake calipers for best performance
I thought that there was a standard placement for disc brake calipers on the front and back wheel assemblies for high-performance sports cars. I thought that I usually saw them placed at the back of the front wheels and the front of the rear wheels, but lately I've seen the opposite and other...- berkeman
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- Brake Disc performance Placement
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- Forum: Mechanical Engineering
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Rigid body motion - thin disc
Why is the gravitational potential energy of the chain's center of mass equal to the total kinetic energy of the disc after it was fully wrapped? My first thought was to write ##E_{0}=(M/2+M)g∗2πR=E_{f}= Ep## (from the chain) ##+Ec## (from the disc). Instead he wrote ## mg \frac{l}{2} ## = ##... -
Particle moving in a rotating disc
Well, I tried plugging the data in the formula. I know that ##\vec a_b = 0; \vec \omega=3 rad/s ; \vec r## can be calculated using trigonometry. Then I also know that ##v_{relx}= 10 cm/s##, ##a_{relx}=15 cm/s^2##, ##\vec {\dot{\omega}}=-10 rad/s^2##. But how do I get ##v_{rely}## and...- Like Tony Stark
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- Disc Particle Relative motion Rotating Rotating disc Rotational mecahnics
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Relative rotational motion on a disc
The first doubt that comes to my mind is "I have to determine the acceleration with respect to what?", because the problem doesn't tell. Then, I have some problems when having to plug the data in the formula of acceleration. ##\vec a_B=0## because the origin isn't accelerated, ##\vec{\dot...- Like Tony Stark
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- Disc Kinematic Motion Relative Relative motion Rotating Rotational Rotational motion
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Making a copy of a KNOPPIX 5.0 disc that boots
I had a KNOPPIX 5.0 disc. I made a copy of the files on this disc, but I then damaged the disc. I have tried simply burning these files onto a dvd disc but it won't boot. Can I use the files that I saved to created a "bootable" KNOPPIX disc?- julian
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- Disc
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- Forum: Computing and Technology
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What is the angular velocity in the center of a rotating disc?
I have a disc. The center of the disc is its center of mass and the motion of the disc is purely rotational (no translation). What is the angular velocity in the center of the rotating disc?- Seth Greenberg
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- Angular Angular velocity Center Disc Rotating Rotating disc Velocity
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- Forum: Mechanics
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Probability of hitting a rotating disc
There are two points of the smaller disck such that a line is tangent to the two discks and passes by that point. If the particle leaves of any point belongin to the arch that connects these two points, then it will hit the other disck. So I managed to calculate the value of this arch and divide...- Moara
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- Disc Probability Rotating Rotating disc
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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B Curve Space-time from Spinning disc?
Please see attached illustration (from Discover September 2004. Einstein 100 years special issue). Is it correct that one key to Einstein's thinking is to analyze a spnning disk. That "Since the rim of the disk travels faster than the center of the disk, the theory of relativity states that the...- lucas_
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- Curve Disc Space-time Spinning
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Potential energy of a shell and a disc, both covered uniformly with charge
Double integration maybe?? I calculated potential due to shell on plate's center but not on other points on it's surface.- Gursimran Singh
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- Charge Disc Double integral Electrostatics Energy Integration Mathematical physics Potential Potential energy Shell
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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MCNP6 Disc Source Setup: Troubleshoot 0 Counts
I am attempting to build a sodium iodide detector on MCNP. I am using a disc source and I have been trying to define it in terms of a cell that I placed underneath the detector. When I run it, I get 0's for my counts. This indicates to me that my source isn't hitting my detector. I keep...- janeeburch
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- Disc Mcnp6 Source
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- Forum: Nuclear Engineering
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How Do Mass and Windings Affect Disc Rotation Dynamics?
I am doing a project, but am struggling to find relationships of proportionality or formulae between my dependent variables (angular velocity, displacement, acceleration of the disc and kinetic energy of the system) and my independent variables (falling masses and then the number of winds) or...- oshin
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- Disc Movement Proportionality Rotating disc Rotational Rotational dynamics Torque and rotation
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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How Do You Derive the Constraint Equation for a Disc Rolling Along a Parabola?
Homework Statement A disc of radius R rolls without slipping along the parabola y= ax2. Obtain the constrain equation Homework Equations Because there's no slipping, then: ##R d \theta = ds (1)## Where ##\theta ## is the angle between the line from the center of the disc to a fixed point...- QuantumDuality
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- Classical mechanics Constraint Disc Parabola
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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What is the kinematics of a rolling disc on a tilted plane?
So the kinematics of the contact point of a disc rolling without slip in a Cartesian plane if fairly straightforward. The velocity for the contact point is just v = ω r ev where r is the wheel radius and ev the current direction vector of the wheel. However, say that you grab the plate and... -
Elliptic functions, diff eq, why proof on open disc holds for C
Homework Statement Hi I am looking at this derivation of differential equation satisfied by ##\phi(z)##. To start with, I know that such a disc ##D## described in the derivation can always be found because earlier in the lecture notes we proved that their exists an ##inf=min \omega ## for...- binbagsss
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- Diff eq Disc Functions Proof
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- Forum: Calculus and Beyond Homework Help
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Speed of a disc after a collision
Homework Statement I understand that if the change in impulse is 0.25, that because disc B is originally stationary the momentum disc B will have is equal to the impulse. My question is how do we do this in terms of change in momentum? Homework Equations ΔP = Pf - Pi P = mv The Attempt at a...- Pochen Liu
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- Collision Disc Momentum Speed
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Conservation of Angular Momentum on a rotating disc
I have a disc that is rotating due to air being blown at its outer radius. The incoming relative velocity of the air is high, therefore the effect of friction supersedes the effect of conservation of angular momentum. The tangential portion of this velocity decreases due to the friction as it...- CullenWillett
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- Angular Angular momentum Conservation Disc Momentum Rotating Rotating disc
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- Forum: Mechanics
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Vector torque problem: Force applied to a disc
Homework Statement A force of magnitude 50N is applied at the bottom point Q of a disk of radius 8m that is pinned at P (leftmost point) See attached picture (a) Find the angle between the force and the vector from P to Q. (b) Find the magnitude of the applied torque. Homework Equations...- jwbensin
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- Applied Disc Disk Force Force applied Torque Vector Vectors
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- Forum: Advanced Physics Homework Help
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I Random set of N points in a unit disc, what is the average nearest distance
Pick a random set of N points from the unit disc. Calculate the distance between all pairs of points and call the smallest value r. Do this calculation for many such sets. Please give me a hint how to estimate what the average value of r is. I guess a computer program could quickly come up with...- Spinnor
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- Average Disc Points Random Set Unit
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- Forum: Set Theory, Logic, Probability, Statistics
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Rotation of Rigid Bodies: Rotating stick with disc on top
Homework Statement [/B] A thin cylindrical rod with the length of L = 24.0 cm and the mass m = 1.20 kg has a cylindrical disc attached to the other end as shown by the figure. The cylindrical disc has the radius R = 8.00 cm and the mass M 2.00 kg. The arrangement is originally straight up...- Exath
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- bodies Disc Inertia Kinetic energy Rigid bodies Rotating Rotation
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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I Comparison of movement of Disc and Hoop
A disc and a hoop (ring) both of same mass and radius roll down an inclined plane of height "h". It is well known the disc has great velocity than that of the hoop at the bottom. I am fixed in the situation after they start rolling horizontally. Which will go farther? If the surface is...- Zahid Iftikhar
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- Comparison Disc Movement
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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A Is There a Boundary Point Where the Holomorphic Function Equals Zero?
I want to solve the following problem: Suppose B=B(0,R) be a ball in C^n, n>1. Let f be holomorphic in B and continuous on B closure. If f(a)=0 for some a in B, show that there is p in boundary of B such that f(p)=0. I assumed f(p) is non zero for every point p in boundary B and create...- JYM
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- Disc Function
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- Forum: Topology and Analysis
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Finding the Total Charge of a Non-Uniformly Charged Disc
Homework Statement I have a disc with radius R. One half has the charge density of +2σ and the other half has −σ. The task is to find the total charge of the disc. Homework Equations dQ=ρ2πr^2 I would use this equation if the charge density was uniform The Attempt at a Solution My first idea...- Hatyk
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- Charged Disc Electrostatic charges
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- Forum: Introductory Physics Homework Help
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Magnetic plate eddy current braking effect on a copper disc
Hi, I've seen many videos of neodymium magnets sliding slowly down an inclined copper plate, or slowly down a copper tube - due to eddy current braking,but never the other way around. My question is; will a copper disc sliding down an inclined magnetic plate, or down a magnetic tube act in the...- Gyro de Pyro
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- Braking Copper Current Disc Eddy current Magnetic Plate
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- Forum: Electrical Engineering
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Curious question regarding Faraday disc / induction, etc.
before I ask anything I know this has been probably talked about a lot in the past from various different angles, yet when I am searching for answers I cannot find a satisfactory answer that would look at it from the perspective I wish so here is my try. I've talked with a mentor of mine about...- girts
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- Curious Disc Faraday Induction
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Electromagnetism