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  2. Cavendish experiment - Wikipedia

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    The torque is where is the torsion coefficient of the wire. However, a torque in the opposite direction is also generated by the gravitational pull of the masses. It can be written as a product of the attractive force of a large ball on a small ball and the distance L/2 to the suspension wire.

  3. Jerk (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Jerk (also known as Jolt) is the rate of change of an object's acceleration over time. It is a vector quantity (having both magnitude and direction). Jerk is most commonly denoted by the symbol j and expressed in m/s 3 ( SI units ) or standard gravities per second ( g 0 /s).

  4. Rotation around a fixed axis - Wikipedia

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    A net torque acting upon an object will produce an angular acceleration of the object according to =, just as F = ma in linear dynamics. The work done by a torque acting on an object equals the magnitude of the torque times the angle through which the torque is applied: W = τ θ . {\displaystyle W=\tau \theta .}

  5. Center of mass - Wikipedia

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    A body's center of gravity is the point around which the resultant torque due to gravity forces vanishes. [13] Where a gravity field can be considered to be uniform, the mass-center and the center-of-gravity will be the same.

  6. Euler's equations (rigid body dynamics) - Wikipedia

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    Torque-free precessions are non-trivial solution for the situation where the torque on the right hand side is zero. When I is not constant in the external reference frame (i.e. the body is moving and its inertia tensor is not constantly diagonal) then I cannot be pulled through the derivative operator acting on L.

  7. Torque - Wikipedia

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    Just as a linear force is a push or a pull applied to a body, a torque can be thought of as a twist applied to an object with respect to a chosen point; for example, driving a screw uses torque to force it into an object, which is applied by the screwdriver rotating around its axis to the drives on the head.

  8. Equations for a falling body - Wikipedia

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    A set of equations describing the trajectories of objects subject to a constant gravitational force under normal Earth-bound conditions.Assuming constant acceleration g due to Earth's gravity, Newton's law of universal gravitation simplifies to F = mg, where F is the force exerted on a mass m by the Earth's gravitational field of strength g.

  9. Net force - Wikipedia

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    When forces act upon an object, they change its acceleration. The net force is the combined effect of all the forces on the object's acceleration, as described by Newton's second law of motion . When the net force is applied at a specific point on an object, the associated torque can be calculated.