Planar motion, complex numbers, and falling leaves: An intriguing minilab

Physics Teacher

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 135-138

  Etkina, Eugenia ^a   Holton, Brian ^b   Horton, George ^c  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^b Rutgers State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85006835916     PISSN: 0031921X     EISSN: 19434928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.879984     Document Type: Article

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1. Norman F. Derby, Robert G. Fuller, and Phil W.Gonseth, "The ubiquitous coffee filter," Phys. Teach. 35, 168-171 (1997).
2. David Keeports "Drag and the two-bullet problem," Phys. Teach. 35, 188-191(1997).
3. Vasilis Pagonis, et al., "Effects of air resistance," Phys. Teach. 35, 364-368 (1997).
4. A good exposition of the vector treatment can be found in Robert A. Becker's Introduction to Theoretical Mechanics, (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1954).
5. The cycloid case is discussed by D. Humphrey in Intermediate Mechanics, Dynamics (Longman Green,London, 1942), pp. 297-299. Note that the Cartesian treatment there requires two closely printed pages.