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ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-paper-shared-by-prelims-and-parts-a-and-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2016/s7/1/2/solution

The cup's rotation relative to the radial basis has angular speed , so its absolute orientation has speed . With the planar rotation matrix,
At , : the cup translates on a circle while its axes remain parallel to fixed inertial axes. Thus , . Cancellation of orientation rotation does not remove acceleration of the cup's center.

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