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Falling Stick
The stick falls onto a flat frictionless surface.
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Sarah Lichtblau
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Developed from the teaching materials of Prof Peacock and Prof Gossard for Course 2.003 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
Equation of motion for this object is
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