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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Dynamics of an unbalanced ring spinning on a rough horizontal surface

Budiman, Benny S. 10 November 2009 (has links)
An interesting stability property, as fascinating as that of spinning tops and gyroscopes, is observable in the motion of an unbalanced ring spinning on a rough horizontal surface. An analytical and numerical study is performed to investigate the general motion of an unbalanced ring modeled as a thin ring with a particle attached to its rim. The translational motion is represented by the rectangular coordinates of the ring geometric center. The rotational motion is represented by a 1-2-3 set of Euler angles. The kinetic motion equations are derived with the use of Newton's second law and Euler's rotational motion equations. The types of motion considered are the pure-rolling and rolling-with-slipping motions. Given favorable initial conditions, ring properties, and a sufficiently large constraint force in the form of friction, the ring undergoes a pure-rolling motion. For other conditions, however, limitations on the magnitude of the friction force render the pure the mathematical model to allow switching from pure-rolling to rolling-with-slipping motion and vice versa. The general motions of the unbalanced ring, obtained by numerically integrating the governing equations with the use of the seventh-eighth order Runge-Kutta method, are in very good qualitative agreement to those observed during an experiment performed with the use of a high-speed video camera. / Master of Science

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