Re: Inverting Tops -- How do they work?

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From: Steve Luzader
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 00:00

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   Another belated response from Luzader.  Someone already mentioned the
AJP paper about the tippy top (written by Martin Olsson, by the way).  There
is also a discussion of tippy tops in Barger & Olsson's mechanics book (a
new edition of which just came out).
   By the way, a football makes a nice large-scale tippy top.  Lay it on its
side, give it a good spin, and it will stand up on one end.  (Before Donald
Simanek asks, I'm afraid I haven't made a study to see if the end it goes to
depends on the initial direction of spin.  But I might check it out...)

Steve Luzader
sluzader@fre.fsu.umd.edu

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