Still of Superimposed Videos of the Mass/Spring Experiment (IMAGE)

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Still of Superimposed Videos of the Mass/Spring Experiment

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Figure 1: Still of superimposed videos of the mass/spring experiment. In the videos, the untethered sphere moves farthest from the center post and closest to the edge. However, the weakly-tethered mass gains angular momentum while the untethered one does not.

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Image courtesy of Derek M. H. Hung

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