https://gdpark.blog/tags/particles/Recent content in Particles on gdpark.blogHugoenFri, 07 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/classical-mechanics-13-center-of-mass-cm/Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/classical-mechanics-13-center-of-mass-cm/A casual breakdown of center of mass — lumping all your particles into one spot and seeing why the CM vector is really just a mass-weighted average.https://gdpark.blog/posts/classical-mechanics-14-momentum-of-a-system-of-particles/Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/classical-mechanics-14-momentum-of-a-system-of-particles/We define total momentum for a particle system, show it equals total mass times the center-of-mass velocity, and land right at the law of conservation of linear momentum!