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🔄 Tossed Tool Rotation Lab: Turns per Metre, Stick Windows and the Intermediate-Axis Flip

Rigid-body simulation of a tossed garden tool: spin rate, turns per metre, stick-distance windows, drag torque and the tennis-racket instability.

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⚙ Under the hood

Rigid-body simulation of a garden tool thrown at a log: quaternion Euler dynamics with cross-flow drag torque, stick distances every 2 pi v over omega metres, and the tennis-racket instability measured against the closed-form growth rate.

rigid bodyangular momentumEuler equationsrotationdrag torque

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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