Rotational Motion: Crash Course Physics #11
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At this point, we’ve covered a lot of the basics when it comes to how things move. But we’ve mostly been focusing on only one type of motion: translational motion, which is when something moves through space, but doesn’t rotate. But rotational motion is also a thing -- and an important one. For example, the spin of a football -- both the soccer and the non-soccer kind -- will affect the way it flies through the air. But the physics of rotational motion isn’t all that different from the physics of translational motion. It still involves things like position, velocity, and acceleration. And many of the equations you use to describe rotational motion will look really familiar to you. But there are some important differences. Like, instead of positions, there are angles. And instead of poi...
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At this point, we’ve covered a lot of the basics when it comes to how things move. But we’ve mostly been focusing on only one type of motion: translational motion, which is when something moves through space, but doesn’t rotate. But rotational motion is also a thing -- and an important one. For example, the spin of a football -- both the soccer and the non-soccer kind -- will affect the way it flies through the air. But the physics of rotational motion isn’t all that different from the physics of translational motion. It still involves things like position, velocity, and acceleration. And many of the equations you use to describe rotational motion will look really familiar to you. But there are some important differences. Like, instead of positions, there are angles. And instead of poi...
