We report the results of an experiment on the rolling motion of a loaded hoop. The data are obtained using a high-speed video camera, and the motion is analyzed on a frame-by-frame basis. Our analysis demonstrates that the experimental results are in reasonably close agreement with previously reported theoretical results.
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See Supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.3697837 for more details on the experimental method.
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