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Dr Hugh Hunt
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TCSS Lecture, November 2004
Boomerangs, Bouncing Balls and Other Spinning Things
Trinity College Cambridge
This one-hour lecture is broken up into 21 bite-sized clips in
WMV
format suitable for Windows Media Player and RealPlayer.
Introduction
Clip01 (1'34")
Bouncing Balls
Clip02 (3'20")
Explanation of ball bouncing under a table
Clip03 (3'40")
Video of ball bouncing under a table
Clip04 (1'57")
Spinning tops and Gyrsocopic Precession
Clip05 (4'53")
Forces
Clip06 (2'19")
Circular Motion vs Gyroscopic Motion
Clip07 (1'51")
Introduction to Boomerangs
Clip08 (0'46")
Newton's Laws for straight-line and circular motion. Lift
Clip09 (3'13")
Moment of Inertia
Clip10 (3'44")
Conservation of moment of momentum on a spinning platform
Clip11 (2'10")
Conservation of moment of momentum - the Hubble Telescope
Clip12 (4'40")
Conservation of moment of momentum - tossing a tennis racquet
Clip13 (7'39")
Falling cat
Clip14 (3'15")
The Gyroscopic Effect
Clip15 (3'24")
The 10kg Laboratory Gyroscope from Cambridge Engineering Department
Clip16 (1'30")
Looking for gyroscopic effects in the home
Clip17 (1'49")
Boomerangs
Clip18 (4'55")
Boomerang equations
Clip19 (2'15")
Small indoor boomerangs
Clip20 (2'04")
The end
Clip21 (1'39")
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Contact Information:
Contact Addresses
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