Honors Physics Students are on a 'Roll'

MCP's Honors Physics students today in lab were assigned to determine where to place both a roll of toilet paper that is dropped and a roll of toilet paper that is unraveled to make sure that they hit the ground at the same time. The students experienced the derivation of the equation using Newton’s 2nd Law for Rotation, measured the toilet paper rolls’ diameters, and by doing the derived calculations, determined where to place the unraveled roll and dropped roll so that they hit the ground at the same time.

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