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We turn in this chapter to the definitive treatment of the heavy symmetric top with three degrees of freedom, and thus assume throughout that the center of gravity is different from the support point.
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Nagem, R.J., Sandri, G. (2010). The general motion of the heavy symmetric top. Introduction to elliptic integrals. In: The Theory of the Top. Volume II. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4827-5_1
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