Name: Bicycle Wheel and Rotating Platform

Category: Mechanics

Subcategory: Rotational Dynamics

Classes: PHYS 101, PHYS 105, Astro

 Comments: The experimenter stands on the rotating platform and spins with a bicycle wheel in hand to show that angular momentum is a vector quantity.
Equipment: Rotating Platform, Lead Bicycle Wheel Location: H104 C (top)

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