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luinthoron
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I would like to patch some gaps in my physics background. For example, I've been trying to come up with the sollution to the following: I have a model rigid body made up of two mass points and a massless rod connecting them. I throw the body with initial velocity under some angle of elevation. My problem is the transfer from single mass point physics to rigid body physics. How do I get the actual movement of the rigid body from knowing the outer forces acting on the two masses? I guess I will have to work with the motion of the center of mass and rotation of the object separately, right?
Could you please at least show me the right direction of thought? Thanks a bunch.
Could you please at least show me the right direction of thought? Thanks a bunch.