May 17, 2005
Mystery solved
I'll finally be able to sleep at night. No more fretting over this problem.
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Try throwing a credit card spinning in the air. You can easily get it to spin "flat," like a Frisbee. It's almost as easy to get it spinning around its long axis.
Now try to get it spinning around its short axis. This is virtually impossible. Why?
Posted by: Bob Hawkins at May 17, 2005 09:07 PM (eZ0vq)
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The term is precession and the description can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession
Posted by: physics geek at May 18, 2005 01:38 PM (Xvrs7)
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