Tag: Intermediate Axis
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Poinsot’s Paper Spaceship #2 – Zeppelin: Unstable Rotation About the Intermediate Axis.
Subtitle: Why UFOs are more stable than zeppelins. This UFO… … tells a story of rotation. The yellow ellipsoid encapsulates the main features of a rotating rigid body: Its moments of inertia, that is: how masses are distributed in relation to three principal axes. The moment of inertia is larger, if more mass is positioned…