Why does a Tippe top flip to spin on its stem?

[al_9591]

Homework Statement

Why when a Tippe top is spun with high angular velocity, it spins until it lifts its body of the top off the ground with its stem pointing downward?

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The Attempt at a Solution

The only reason I could think of was that it's kinetic energy is converted to potential energy, is this idea correct? could somebody please give me a theoretical explanation and also with equations?

 

[HallsofIvy]

Can you give any reason why it's kinetic energy would be converted to potential energy?

This looks to me like a physics question, not mathematics, so I am moving it.