The tippe top revisited
The tippe top displays the unexpected behavior of inverting itself when it is spun upon a flat surface. In the process its center of mass rises. Several explanations of this behavior have been offered...
The tippe top displays the unexpected behavior of inverting itself when it is spun upon a flat surface. In the process its center of mass rises. Several explanations of this behavior have been offered...
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Life at low Reynolds number
American Journal of Physics -- January 1977 -- Volume 45, Issue 1, pp. 3-11
Issue Date: January 1977
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Editor's note: This is a reprint (slightly edited) of a paper of the same title that appeared in the book Physics and Our World: A Symposium in Honor of Victor F. Weisskopf, published by the American Institute of Physics (1976). The personal tone of the original talk has been preserved in the paper, which was itself a slightly edited transcript of a tape. The figures reproduce transparencies used in the talk. The demonstration involved a tall rectangular transparent vessel of corn syrup, projected by an overhead projector turned on its side. Some essential hand waving could not be reproduced.
©1977 American Association of Physics Teachers
©1977 American Association of Physics Teachers
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