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Throwing a ball into a tube - The Golf Ball Paradox
This post is about the visualization of a gyroscopic phenomenon of a rotating body. MapleSim models and a description for those who do not have MapleSim are provided for their own analysis....
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How to generate a better looking sphere with a chessboard pattern
In the attachment is an attempt with undesireable rendering artefactsI did not use color functions because I intend to export the black fields of the ball to stl format to use them for a better...
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We have just released updates to Maple and MapleSim. Maple 2024.2 includes ability to tear away tabs into new windows, improvements to scrollable matrices, corrections to PDF export, small improvements...
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What makes this contact not roll smoothly and bounce
In the attached model I have tried (among other things) to simulate a disk pendulum without friction.The simulation shows bouncing and angular lock.There are also 3 warnings and an initialization...
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How to attach a box beometry to a pendulum
I can do that for a cylinder (in green below) but not for a box geometry.Box_geometry_and_pendulum.msimÂ
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Once again, the Intermediate Axis Theorem
Keywords: Intermediate axis theorem, Tennis racket theorem, Dzhanibekov effect, Coriolis force, Euler equationsIn 1988 I witnesses the instability of the rotation about the intermediate axis of a foam...
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