ANGULAR MOMENTUM STOOL

Demo Number 355
Location On a short cart by the pillar
Description Sit down on the stool with your arms extended, holding the weights. After the system is set into rotation, you pull the weights to your chest, decreasing the moment of inertia of the system and increasing the angular speed of the system.
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Tips
  • You can use a big bicycle wheel with this stool. Sit down on a stool, and turn the spinning bicycle wheel over and back. (1Q30 Angular momentum transfer)

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This Demo is Part of the following Categories: 1Q30 Transfer of Angular Momentum, 1Q40 Conservation of Angular Momentum