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🌀 Tourbillon Lab: How a Rotating Cage Averages Out the Poise Error of a Balance Wheel

3D tourbillon built in Blender: an unbalanced balance wheel runs fast or slow depending on its orientation to gravity, and the rotating cage averages the positional error, checked by simulation against a Bessel-function formula.

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Tourbillon Lab: How a Rotating Cage Averages Out the Poise Error of a Balance Wheel ↗ Open standalone
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3D tourbillon built in Blender: an unbalanced balance wheel runs fast or slow depending on its orientation to gravity, and the rotating cage averages the positional error, checked by simulation against a Bessel-function formula.

TourbillonBalance WheelPoise ErrorPositional ErrorHorology

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