Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mordor.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!mordor!@S1-A.ARPA,@MIT-MC.ARPA:king@Kestrel From: @S1-A.ARPA,@MIT-MC.ARPA:king@Kestrel Newsgroups: net.space Subject: gyroscopic reels Message-ID: <2498@mordor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 15:19:53 EDT Article-I.D.: mordor.2498 Posted: Wed Jul 3 15:19:53 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jul-85 00:39:05 EDT Sender: daemon@mordor.UUCP Lines: 8 From: king@Kestrel.ARPA As the fullness of a reel increases its moment increases and its angular velocity decreases. We have two degrees of freedom: hub diameter and moment of an empty reel. It seems likely to me that e can make any variations in the angular momentum third-order. I'll do the math when I'm less busy...