General Planar Motion
See also: Polar coordinate system (section: vector calculus)The previous equations for planar motion can be used here: corollaries of momentum, angular momentum etc. can immediately follow by applying the above definitions. For any object moving in any path in a plane,
the following general results apply to the particle.
| Kinematics | Dynamics |
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| Position | |
| Velocity
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Momentum
Angular momenta |
| Acceleration
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The centripetal force is
where again m is the mass moment, and the coriolis force is The Coriolis acceleration and force can also be written: |
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