College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
1Q10.10 - Inertial Wands
Give one wand to each of two students. Have them hold the wand at the center and rotate it back and forth. The student whose wand has the mass in the center will be able to rotate their wand much faster than the student whose wand has the mass located at the ends of the wand. The clear wands can be used to show the mass locations in the two opaque wands.
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- David R. Lapp, "Moment of Inertia with PVC Pipe and Iron Rebar", Apparatus for Teaching Physics, p. 48, Edited by Karl Mamola.
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