Problems and Solutions on Mechanics

About the Teaching of Plane Motion of Rigid Bodies

“…This result has been previously derived in several texts and notes, for example, see Refs. [24,26,27]. As expected, Eq.…”

“…Particularly, we consider another typical example: a ladder that slides without friction as in Fig. 2(a) [19,[24][25][26][27][28]. The forces associated to the wall and floor perform rotational and translational works which have the same magnitude but opposite sign.…”