Falling Stick
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The stick falls onto a flat frictionless surface.
Contributed by: Sarah Lichtblau (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Developed from the teaching materials of Prof Peacock and Prof Gossard for Course 2.003 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
Equation of motion for this object is .
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"Falling Stick"
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Published: March 7 2011