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Rotational Motion

Spinning things: torque, inertia, angular momentum

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Rotational motion treats torque, rotational inertia, the rotational second law, rolling energy, and conserved angular momentum.

Skills in this topic

  • Torque & Rotational Inertia

    Find the turning effect of a force and the inertia a body has about an axis

  • Rotational Dynamics

    Apply the rotational second law and the angular equations of motion

  • Rotational Energy & Angular Momentum

    Handle a rolling body's two kinds of energy and the angular momentum a system conserves

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