New - long - physics and art blog post:
~ Visualizing the motion of a force-free gyroscope - a little story about an ellipsoid and an alien.
~ How I drew it, and how I mounted the drawing on a canvas with magnets.
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Geometry of the Motion of a Free Prolate Gyroscope (and the Power of Magnets)
How should I spin the story of the gyroscope this time? Imagine, you have a wonderfully crafted elongated ellipsoid from wood (shaped like a rugby ball). You built some apparatus that make it spin …