Stationary Precession of a Spinning Top![]() Snapshots 1 and 2: adding an initial nutation velocity, the motion becomes a combination of a stationary precession and a nutation motion Snapshot 3: increasing the initial spin, the "gyroscopic stability" increases, which reduces the precession velocity: ![]() Reference: C. P. Pesce, Dinâmica dos Corpos Rígidos, Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, 2004. http://www.poli.usp.br/d/pme2200/DCR_Pesce.pdf (Portuguese) ![]() "Stationary Precession of a Spinning Top" from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/StationaryPrecessionOfASpinningTop/ Contributed by: William C. Guttner |
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