Abstract
In this chapter we will study the motion of a spinning top — the well known children’s toy. From the physical point of view we can represent it as a symmetric rigid rotor in a homogeneous gravitational field. Let O be the point at the tip of the top.
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References
Herbeet Goldstein, Classical Mechanics, Addison-Wesley, 1980.
M. E. Spiegel, Theoretical Mechanics, McGraw-Hill, 1980.
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Klvaňa, F. (1995). The Spinning Top. In: Solving Problems in Scientific Computing Using Maple and MATLAB® . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97619-3_12
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