A pendulum hangs from the ceiling of a truck that moves with a constant acceleration and does not move. Compute the equation of motion of the pendulum in the rest frame of the truck and some suitable inertial reference frame. Which of the two frames ‘violates’ Newton’s second law of motion?

A pendulum hangs from the ceiling of a truck that moves with a constant acceleration and does not move. Compute the equation of motion of the pendulum in the rest frame of the truck and some suitable inertial reference frame. Which of the two frames ‘violates’ Newton’s second law of motion?

Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems

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Chapter2: Newtonian Mechanics-single Particle

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 2.50P: According to special relativity, a particle of rest mass m0 accelerated in one dimension by a force...

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