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physics.ed-ph2011★ 13 cited
The Atwood's machine as a tool to introduce variable mass systems
Célia A. de Sousa
This paper discusses an instructional strategy which explores eventual similarities and/or analogies between familiar problems and more sophisticated systems. In this context, the…
physics.ed-ph2011★ 12 cited
Falling chains as variable mass systems: theoretical model and experimental analysis
Célia A. de Sousa, Paulo M. Gordo, Pedro Costa
In the present paper we revisit, theoretical and experimentally, the fall of a folded U-chain and of a pile-chain. The model calculation implies the division of the whole system in…