In a homework problem for this course, students are asked to consider the motion of a system made up of a plate (having a mass of m) which is pinned to a cart B (having a mass of M) at corner O. The ...

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It has been known for more than a century, since the seminal works by J.H. Poynting 1, that light carries momentum and angular momentum (AM) 2,3. These are the main dynamical properties of ...

A sphere moving on a smooth horizontal surface (the xy-plane) impacts a set of 13 cubes at rest on the same surface. This impacts leads to a number of subsequent impacts among these cubes. The ...