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sics/experimenrnTov EXP 11-PRELAB COLLINN COLLEGE PHYSICS www.collin.edu/physics

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Question

sics/experimenrnTov EXP 11-PRELAB COLLINN COLLEGE PHYSICS www.collin.edu/physics PRE-LAB Instructions: Print out these pages. Feel free to refer to the lab instructions and other materials, your physics textbook, other students, etc. to help you to ponder, understand, and work out answers to the following question(s). Show your work & answers in the space(s) provided. PRE-LAB Questions: 1) Explain why and how an object moving in a straight line has angular momentum. 2) Explain how you will use Data Studio to measure angular velocity and lincar acceleration in this eperiment. 3) What constitutes "the system" whose moment of inertia you will determine in this experiment? Explain. MacBook Air

Explanation / Answer

One need to calculate the moment of inertia about its center of mass. Here the object's mass can be assumed to concentrated at it's center of mass, so one need to calculate its moment of inertia along a axis passing through it's center of mass.