Rolling in Rigid Body Motion

Description
Rolling motion of various objects like ball, cylinder, wheels etc are considered.Relation between torque and angular momentum is derived.Examples of earth-sun motion and motion of a cylinder slipping without rolling down an inclined plane are explained.A number of numerical examples makes understanding the topic easy.

Prof. Stanley Kowalski, Physics 8.01 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare),http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed Aug 3rd,2011). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/#cc