Understanding reversals of a rattleback (Q1701459)
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Understanding reversals of a rattleback (English)
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23 February 2018
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A toy rattleback of ellipsoidal shaped bottom is studied by using the frictionless Newton equations and spinning initial conditions without sliding in a plane. It is shown that the long-time behavior of such ratlleback is quasi-periodic and that a rattleback which starts with small transversal oscillations turns in the specified direction.
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rattleback
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rigid body dynamics
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nonholonomic mechanics
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numerical solutions
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