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Toast Falling from Table Tracker Experiment
written by Maria Vélez, Juan Alberto Cano Díez, Jimena Fernández del Valle, Alba Fernández Vázquez, Sergio García Pajares, and Héctor Bolaños Chamorro
This is a video of an experiment of a falling toast performed with Tracker by first year Physics Majors at Universidad the Oviedo.
In the first Tracker file, the motion of the toast end points and its Center of Mass is analyzed as it falls from a high table. The center of mass follows an approximately parabolic motion with a certain horizontal friction.

In the second file the rotation of the toast end points relative to the Center of Mass is displayed.The experiment clearly shows that the toast makes a half turn during its falling trajectory so that it arrives upside down to the floor.

This experiment was performed as a project by students Juan Alberto Cano Díez, Jimena Fernández del Valle, Alba Fernández Vázquez, Sergio García Pajares y Héctor Bolaños Chamorro
Falling Toast and Murphy's Law TRZ

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Falling Toast Rotation about CM TRZ
The rotation of the toast end points relative to the Center of Mass is displayed.
download 670kb .trz
Last Modified: April 27, 2023
previous versions
2 ready-to-run examples are available
1 supplemental document is available
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Classical Mechanics
- Motion in Two Dimensions
= Center of Mass
= Projectile Motion
- Relative Motion
= Rotating Reference Frames
- Rotational Dynamics
- Lower Undergraduate
- Informal Education
- Upper Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Activity
- Audio/Visual
= Movie/Animation
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This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Rights Holder:
Maria Velez
Keyword:
center of mass
Record Creator:
Metadata instance created April 25, 2019 by Maria Fraga
Record Updated:
April 27, 2023 by Douglas Brown
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April 26, 2019
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M. Vélez, J. Díez, J. del Valle, A. Vázquez, S. Pajares, and H. Chamorro, , 2019, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15021&DocID=5058).
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M. Vélez, J. Díez, J. del Valle, A. Vázquez, S. Pajares, and H. Chamorro, Toast Falling from Table Tracker Experiment, 2019, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15021&DocID=5058>.
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Vélez, M., Díez, J., del Valle, J., Vázquez, A., Pajares, S., & Chamorro, H. (2019). Toast Falling from Table Tracker Experiment. Retrieved May 2, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15021&DocID=5058
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Vélez, M, J. Díez, J. del Valle, A. Vázquez, S. Pajares, and H. Chamorro. "Toast Falling from Table Tracker Experiment." 2019. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15021&DocID=5058 (accessed 2 May 2025).
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Vélez, Maria, Juan Alberto Cano Díez, Jimena Fernández del Valle, Alba Fernández Vázquez, Sergio García Pajares, and Héctor Bolaños Chamorro. Toast Falling from Table Tracker Experiment. 2019. 2 May 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15021&DocID=5058>.
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