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Undergrad What's happening to my spinning rugby ball
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Undergrad What's happening to my spinning rugby ball
Hello everyone, this is my first post here so I hope I don't commit any physicsforums faux pas in this! I have a curiousity. If you take a rugby ball or any other prolate ellipsoid and give it a good spin, it will rise up onto it's end. I wonder if any of you guys could clear up exactly why...