Chapter 8: Rotational Motion
Puzzles



1.  

"Detective Work"

You are given two identical looking metal cylinders and a long rope. The cylinders have the same size and shape and they weigh the same.

You are told that one of them is hollow, the other is solid.

How would you determine which is which using only the rope and the two cylinders?


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