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🪀 Spinning Top - 2D Precession Plane: Axis Tip Trace, Nutation and the Sleeping Top

2D companion of the Spinning Top: a heavy symmetric top integrated from the Euler equations, with a side view and a top view of the axis-tip trace showing precession and nutation, spin friction, live angle and rate graphs, and checks of energy conservation, steady precession and the slow-precession formula.

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Spinning Top - 2D Precession Plane: Axis Tip Trace, Nutation and the Sleeping Top ↗ Open standalone
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2D companion of the Spinning Top: a heavy symmetric top integrated from the Euler equations, with a side view and a top view of the axis-tip trace showing precession and nutation, spin friction, live angle and rate graphs, and checks of energy conservation, steady precession and the slow-precession formula.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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