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Description: Cylinders with the same mass but different moments of inertia will roll down a flat surface at different accelerations, as they have to "convert" different amounts of potential energy into kinetic energy to achieve a given angular velocity.
Title: RollingVsInertia
Credit: https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1225050271384002561
Author: Jacopo Bertolotti
Permission: https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1030470604418428929
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