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Conservation of Momentum Fun

Sunday, 31 January 2010

In case you're wondering what we're looking at: When they all pull in, they move their collective centre of mass moves towards the axis, the inertia of the bodies travelling in a smaller circle results in the bods spinning faster.

 

They even did the numerical analysis.

Science, yo.


Author: Salted Slug

Reproduced from Sept 09

 

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