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Suppose a cylinder with moment of inertia I is let go from rest so that it slides down an inclinde plane making an angle of tex2html_wrap_inline676 with the horizontal. Calculate

a
The velocity after the cylinder has gone down a vertical distance h.
b
The acceleration along the inclined plane.

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Joshua Deutsch
Sun Feb 23 15:54:50 PST 1997