Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2020

DOI

10.1119/1.5141955

Publication Title

Physics Teacher

Volume

58

Issue

1

Pages

A69-A70

Abstract

At what speed will a car flip over when it slides side-ways into a curb? The angular momentum of the car will depend on its initial speed, the height of the curb, and the height of the center-of-mass (CM) of the car. If we approximate the car as having all its mass located at its CM, then its initial angular momentum relative to the top of the curb is. [Extracted from the article]

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This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Physics Teacher, Volume 58, Issue 1, Pages 533-534 and may be found at https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1119/1.5141955

Copyright 2020, Lawrence Weinstein.

Original Publication Citation

Weinstein, L. (2020). Solutions for Fermi questions, January 2020: Question 1: Car flip; question 2: A mole of people. Physics Teacher, 58(1), 533-534. doi:10.1119/1.5141955

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0000-0001-5416-2900 (Weinstein)

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