1Q50.01 - Spinning tops
- Description
This demonstration illustrates the precession of a spinning top.
- Equipment
- Small wooden spinning top
- Big plastic spinning top
- How to assemble and operate
- 1. Spring the top manually (wooden top) or by pulling the plastic rod out of the top (plastic top).
- 2. While spinning, the frictional torque will cause the top to rotate around its unstable axis.
