The Most Mind-Blowing Aspect of Circular Motion

In this video we take an in depth look at what happens when a ball is being swung around in circular motion on the end of a string and you then release the string. This phenomenon turns out to be quite surprising!

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This project was supported, in part, by Dickinson College.

Special thanks to Aaron Titus and Jeff Regester for being such a big help at High Point University. A big thanks also to Noah Lape for helping with almost every aspect of this video, and for producing such a nice slinky simulation! Lastly, thanks to my Dickinson colleagues for helpful discussions and to Jonathan Barrick for being willing to make me anything at any time!

This project was inspired by a paper written by Aaron and Jeff, along with their colleagues and students. The paper was published in the American Journal of Physics and is available here: https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4960475; arXiv version: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04037.

Although not very math-y, I went ahead and entered this video into #SoME3

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Music for this video courtesy of

Vincent Rubinetti:
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Chill Abstract (Intention) by ComaStudio, downloaded from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/upbeat-chil...