Atwood's machine with a massive string

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/AA82FBMaRDI QIDQ4601968zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nivaldo A. Lemos

Publication date 25 January 2018

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01263

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian dynamicsAtwood's machine: massive string

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinematics of mechanisms and robots (70B15) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

Abstract: The dynamics of Atwood's machine with a string of significant mass are described by the Lagrangian formalism, providing an eloquent example of how the Lagrangian approach is a great deal simpler and so much more expedient than the Newtonian treatment.

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