Workshop Week5 2021 PDF

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Workshop questions for Classical Mechanics Week 5...

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1. Coordinates for a rigid body Each breakout room should nominate a recorder, and a reporter. a) As a breakout room, discuss: 1. How many coordinates are needed to describe a rigid body 2. What they should be, and why

b) The reporters will tell us their room’s ideas

2. Derive Snell’s law

3. Try this using Newton’s laws only Consider a point mass (mass M), able to slide without friction on a rigid rod. The rod is rotating at a constant angular velocity Ω in a vertical plane. It is also attached to a spring with spring constant k and natural length L. Find the equation of motion for the mass. Ω...