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can magnets do work?
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Where does a bullet fall if you shoot it straight up?
stabilizing industrial lettuce spinner
feel of different hammers
sandy balls rolling down
sandy balls rolling down
torque vs. force
Why does one impart 'spin' to a bullet?
force on one end of dropped board
force and torque
Stable and Unstable Rotations: The Tennis Racket Theorem
torque and Newton's laws
Flushing toilets south of the equator
why show torque as a vector?
Does the universe have net spin or rotation?
is linear momentum converted to angular momentum?
Can you swing a ball around in a horizontal plane?
home tornado
spinning top and Newton's laws
anti-centrifuge?
Can you get mass distributions from moments of inertia?
Dropping a diver head first. Can he land feet first?
Earth's spin and gravity
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electron g
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Eastward Ho!
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