Sliding doors

Looking closely to the mechanism which make sliding doors move, one sees that the motion of the commonly used objects can be understood by solving a problem related to the motion of blocks and pulleys. The system is by itself interesting to be modelled as a problem in Newtonian mechanics, and the so...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberto De Luca
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Física
Series:Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-11172008000300003&lng=en&tlng=en