In this chapter, we extend perhaps the most famous law in mechanics, Newton’s Second Law, to study objects and systems of objects executing rotational motion. Emphasis is placed on developing an intuition for the effects of torques on the rotational dynamics of systems by comparing and contrasting them to the effects that forces have on the linear motion of such systems.
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