Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Tuesday's class

We'll begin rotational motion today, starting with angular equations of motion and working our way up to rotational kinetic energy. I'm presuming you've skimmed Ch. 10 a bit; if not, be sure you have read through it by Thursday certainly.

We will also go over a few of the exam problems. Probably not all of them, some will have to wait until Thursday in the interests of time. Solutions to the exam will come out tomorrow after class.

After that, we'll work on the ballistics project for 45-60min. If the parts come in, we can start with that already ... if not, we will work on ballistics calculations and determining drag forces. The order for our rocket launchers has been placed, it is only to be seen if they show up tomorrow or not ...

There will be a project-related assignment for Thursday which I'll discuss tomorrow. Most likely, it will be to determine a reasonably-accurate form of the drag force on our rockets, but this also depends on whether said rockets are delivered or not ...

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