Rotational Dynamics
D1-52: FAIRGROUND ROTOR
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Illustrate the application of rotational forces
D1-44: ACCELEROMETERS AND FRAMES OF REFERENCE
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Demonstrate the direction of the acceleration in both rotational and translational coordinate systems
G1-11 COMPARISON OF SHM AND UCM
Category: G1 Simple Harmonic Motion
Purpose:
Demonstrates the relationship between simple harmonic motion and uniform circular motion.
D4-03: BICYCLE WHEEL GYROSCOPE ON PIVOT
Category: D4 Gyroscopes
Purpose:
Demonstrates gyroscopic precession and nutation
D3-05 ROTATING CHAIR AND BICYCLE WHEEL
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Illustrates conservation of angular momentum
D3-03 ROTATING CHAIR AND WEIGHTS
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Illustrates conservation of angular momentum
D3-02: MASS ON STRING - ORBITS WITH VARYING RADIUS
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Illustrates conservation of angular momentum
D3-01 MASSES SLIDING ON ROTATING CROSSARM
Category: D3 Angular Momentum
Purpose:
Illustrates conservation of angular momentum
D2-31 OBERBECK CROSS
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Illustrates rotational analog of Newton's second law of motion
D2-02: Miscellaneous Rolling Bodies On Inclined Plane
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Demonstrates effect of rotational inertia on acceleration of an object
D2-01 RING AND DISC ON INCLINED PLANE
Category: D2 Moment of Inertia
Purpose:
Demonstrates effect of rotational inertia on acceleration of an object
D1-61: Rolling versus Sliding
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Applies conservation of energy to a rolling object
D1-53 LOOP-THE-LOOP
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Demonstrates centripetal force and conservation of energy in a rotating object
D1-51 BANKED CURVE MODEL
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Aid in explaining banked turns
D1-41 ROTATING WATER BUCKET
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Demonstrates centripetal force and centrifugal reaction
D1-37 MUDSLINGER
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Illustrates centripetal force and that instantaenous velocity is tangent to the circular path
D1-35 CENTRIPETAL FORCE - ROTATING MASS
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Measures the required centripetal force for an object to move with uniform circular motion
D1-34 ROTATING MASS ON SPRING
Category: D1 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics
Purpose:
Illustrates centripetal force
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D2-01 RING AND DISC ON INCLINED PLANE
Demonstrates effect of rotational inertia on acceleration of an object Read More
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D2-02: Miscellaneous Rolling Bodies On Inclined Plane
Demonstrates effect of rotational inertia on acceleration of an object Read More
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D2-03: CANS ON INCLINED PLANE - WITH AND WITHOUT WATER
Illustrate the effect of moment of inertia on rolling acceleration.
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D2-04: MOMENT OF INERTIA RODS
Demonstrate dynamic effects of the center of mass and moment of inertia
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D2-05: DUMBBELL - VARIABLE MOMENT OF INERTIA
Demonstrate the effect of moment of inertia.
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D2-11: HINGED STICK AND FALLING BALL
Application of the rotational analog of Newton's second law.
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D2-12: TOPPLING CHIMNEY
Demonstrate how a toppling chimney breaks up.
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D2-13: RACING PENDULA
Illustrate in a counter-intuitive way the effect of moment of inertia on rotational acceleration.
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D2-21: CENTER OF PERCUSSION - BAT AND MALLET
Demonstrate the center of percussion using a baseball bat.
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D2-31 OBERBECK CROSS
Illustrates rotational analog of Newton's second law of motion Read More
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D2-32: AIR TABLE - LINEAR AND ANGULAR ACCEL OF A DISC
Illustrate the accelerating disc problem.
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D2-41: MOMENTS OF INERTIA ABOUT THREE PRINCIPAL AXES
Illustrate the three principal axes of a thin aluminum plate.
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D2-42: MOMENT OF INERTIA -TORSIONAL CHAIR AND BOARD
Demonstrate moment of inertia using the torsional chair.
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D2-43: MOMENT OF INERTIA - TORSIONAL CHAIR AND WEIGHTS
Demonstrate the effect of moment of inertia.
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D2-51: BICYCLE WHEEL PENDULUM
Demonstrate the Parallel Axis Theorem.
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