OK last hint from me here is the result of your experiment ... try and work out why because I can't justify wasting more time on this.

I think you are expecting R2 to rotate but it will only get a very small rotation ending in a weird horizontal position .... this it what it will end up looking like.



The end weird new format will rotate like this along the direction of the original path at a distance of the rope length + R2 length



R2 will get a very minor rotation probably swivelling it and the rope and mass m. It's not hard to test this sort of thing on the ISS and they have done hundreds of them.


That is definitely the final result of your experiment ... now you challenge is to work where your theory went wrong ..... I will leave you to it.

Last edited by Orac; 05/11/14 06:53 PM.
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