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Classical Mechanics — Week 10: Rotational Motion

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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 8.01SC Classical Mechanics, Fall 2016, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: this unit's sessions in MIT's listing order. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

Instructors: Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic
Term: Fall 2016
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 21 videos · 1 problem set
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Classical Mechanics — Week 10: Rotational Motion

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Week 10 Introduction

28.2 Introduction to Translation and Rotation

28.3 Review of Angular Velocity and Acceleration

29.1 Kinetic Energy of Rotation

29.2 Moment of Inertia of a Rod

29.3 Moment of Inertia of a Disc

29.4 Parallel Axis Theorem

29.5 Moment of Inertia of a Sphere

29.6 Derivation of the Parallel Axis Theorem

30.1 Introduction to Torque and Rotational Dynamics

30.2 Cross Product

30.3 Cross Product in Cartesian Coordinates

30.4 Torque

30.5 Torque from Gravity

31.1 Relationship between Torque and Angular Acceleration

31.2 Internal Torques Cancel in Pairs

31.3 Worked Example - Find the Moment of Inertia of a Disc from a Falling Mass

31.4 Worked Example - Atwood Machine

31.5 Massive Pulley Problems

31.7 Worked Example - Two Blocks and a Pulley Using Energy

PS.10.1 Blocks and Massive Pulley