Spinning Tube

When a cylinder of any sort is spun by "squirting" one end out from under a finger, any mark on that end of the cylinder will show up in a stroboscope like manner. If the length of the cylinder is a multiple of the diameter of the cylinder, the mark will show up that many times as the cylinder spins. The video clearly shows the cylinder rolling around one end, with the other end lifted slightly due to precession.

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• Physics
• Demonstration
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• Senior
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• science
• demonstrations
• spinning
• cylinders
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• precession