Coupled rolling motion: a student project in non-holonomic mechanics
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | European Journal of Physics |
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| Field | Theoretical physics |
| Keywords | non-holonomic mechanics; physics education |
| Description | This paper presents an uriginam undergraduate student project in theoretical mechanics: a demonstration of theory and experiment agreement inspired by a recently theoretically treated mechanical problem of coupled rolling motion of two cylinders. The problem of a mechanical system subjected to non-holonomic constraints is theoretically and numerically solved. Subsequently, the solution is quantitatively verified by a simple and inexpensive experiment, originally proposed and constructed by the authors. Combining the theoretical description and computational procedures with an appropripate laboratory experiment gives students a more complex view of the physical problem as a whole. |
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