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    Undergrad Simulated motion of an oblate and prolate spinning spheroid

    hi, i have a question regarding the "gyroscopic approximation" mentioned in the video. since friction (μ = 0.2) is present, the angular velocity will inevitably decrease over time. at what point does this approximation lose its validity? specifically, once the rotation drops below a certain...
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    High School Looking for an English translation of Levi-Civita's 1926 paper "Sur l'écart géodésique" ("On the geodesic deviation")

    maybe tools like Mathpix Snip could help, i read somewhere that they’re very helpful. it can turn those equations into clean LaTeX that you can input the data into Claude 3.5 Sonnet for a context-sensitive translation.