Spinning stopper

Thursday 1 January 2015

A spinning stopper is not something that stops a body spinning, it's a bottle stopper that rotates on the end of a string threaded though a glass tube with a mass hanging on its end. All sounds rather contrived but its a classic circular motion experiment (Spinning stopper). I thought I'd have a go at simulating it with GeoGebra and am rather pleased with the result so I'll write some instructions on how its done.

Spinning stopper simulation (GeoGebra)

Oh, happy new year.

Here is the applet


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