Designing a New Leaning Tower Demonstration

• Thomas B. Greenslade Jr ^[1]
  1. [1] Kenyon College

     Kenyon College

     Township of College, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 59, Nº. 6, 2021, págs. 445-445
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Leaning Tower is a long-time staple of the demonstration room. I can trace it as far back as apparatus catalogues from the 1850s. Some years ago, while teaching myself how to use a new wood lathe, I made a replica of the original design, shown on the left-hand side of Fig. 1. With the top removed, the tower is stable, but once the top is added, the line of action passing through the center of mass falls outside the area of the base and over it goes.