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Rotation Stability of spinning cube

Nasser M. Abbasi

June 28, 2014 compiled on — Wednesday July 06, 2016 at 08:36 AM
Cube is stable when spinning around either the major or the minor principal axes. This demo illustrates this by solving Euler equations of motion in 3D for zero torque. Select the spin axes, then click on perturbe to see the effect