Posted by T.Gracken on August 30, 2002 at 12:53:36: In Reply to:
Re: hints... posted by Brad Paul on August 30, 2002 at 12:36:00:
: : and d2T/dt2 (second derivative) will give agular
acceleration. : One needs to be careful here. You are correct
for circular motion with : your second derivative for the
angular acceleration, but this is not : true in a general case.
The root of the problem comes from the fact : that the unit
vectors in polar coordinates are a function of : position. If I
have time this weekend I'll try to put together a : complete
explanation. I am just giving hints for this fellows question at
hand. And as this problem was set up in R2, my hints were in
relation to his specific problem and that type of coordinate
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