Newton single handedly brought about a new era in our understanding of the physical world, through his famous equation F = ma and the law of gravity. These laws successfully predict the behavior of all phenomena from the microscopic world to the astronomical world! Ofcourse, Einstien changed things once again but that was only after about 4 centuries. Solving Irodov dramatically helped me understand the power, elegance, simplicity and beauty of Physics. Hopefully you will enjoy the journey too.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Irodov Problem 1.360
For this problem we can use the solution found in Problem 1.359 namely,
We can determine the velocity of one of the rods relative to the other by setting v1=v2=v to obtain,
To one rod thus, the other rod would appear to be shrunk and of length,
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