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IN a recent communication1, R. Parks and L. Maunder have directed attention to the fact that the period of oscillation of a gyrostat is not affected by damping if this were applied to both axes in a certain ratio (equal to the ratio of the moments of inertia of the uncoupled axes).
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Parks, R., and Maunder, L., Nature, 190, 710 (1961).
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Bloch, A., Proc. Int. Elect. Eng., 92, (Part I) 157 (1945).
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BLOCH, A. Damping without Influence on Frequency. Nature 191, 1086–1087 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1911086a0
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