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This lab allows students to explore the impact of mass distribution for the motion of cylinders rolling down slopes. Two cylinders that look the same may roll down a hill at different rates depending on their mass distribution and moment of inertia. This page describes an experiment to study this physics.
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Number = {24 May 2025},
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