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Jun 3 at 4:45 history edited pysicsuser CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jun 2 at 17:00 comment added Cleonis Can you please rewrite this question, stating rotation around the x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis in terms of rolling, pitching, and swiveling. The first two are borrowed from aviation. (Aviation uses yaw for the third one, I replaced that with swivel.) For instance : you write "it will also try to rotate spheres" For the purpose of making sure there is no ambiguity: I recommend to always specify which axis of rotation you have in mind. In the diagram you provided it could be either pitching or swiveling
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May 23 at 21:00 comment added Pato Galmarini an intuitive analogy is a central force made by a rope. if a ball at the end of the rope is moving tangentially to the rope, pushing the rope towards the center makes it move in a circle, if it starts at rest it makes it move towards the center.
May 23 at 20:58 comment added Pato Galmarini but it is a gyroscopic effect, the torque is the same, but if the wheel were not rotating, the change in angular momentum would make the device to rotate vertically, instead of precising horizontally.
May 23 at 20:15 comment added pysicsuser @Pato Galmarini why, you said 'The rod makes a torque to the wheel' above, if so there is some torque acting on the spinning wheel therefore it must be subjected gyroscopic effect
May 23 at 20:14 comment added Pato Galmarini I meant about, not along
May 23 at 20:04 comment added Pato Galmarini So basically the entire thing will rotate clockwise as seen from above, and the wheel will keep spinning along the rod axis
May 23 at 19:54 comment added g s Try expressing every state variable as a function of angular momentum.
May 23 at 19:52 comment added Pato Galmarini The rod makes a torque to the wheel as it attempts to move obliquely, but I am not sure if that is what you are asking
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May 23 at 17:04 comment added basics Please, add some details: is there an hinge between the wheel and the rod connecting the two masses? Is this system constrained to the ground? If not, could we assume that weight is negligible?
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May 23 at 16:51 history asked pysicsuser CC BY-SA 4.0