Abstract
THE persistence of spinning tops and of running bicycles in rearing themselves erect are common examples of a wide class of dynamical phenomena which are influenced or governed by the presence of rapidly rotating parts, and which have a prominent place in all departments of physical science, from the relations of the systems of the stars down to molecular actions.
Dynamics of Rotation: an Elementary Introduction to Rigid Dynamics.
By A. M. Worthington. Pp. 155. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892.)
Spinning Tops.
By John Perry. Pp. 136. (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1890.)
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L., J. Dynamics of Rotation: an Elementary Introduction to Rigid Dynamics Spinning Tops. Nature 46, 4–5 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046004a0
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