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From: rivero@kovacs.UUCP (Michael Foster Rivero)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: gyroscopic reels
Message-ID: <248@kovacs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 22:44:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  9 22:44:57 1985
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Reply-To: rivero@kovacs.UUCP (Michael Foster Rivero)
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Summary: 

In article <2498@mordor.UUCP> @S1-A.ARPA,@MIT-MC.ARPA:king@Kestrel writes:
>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...


	Of course, there's the problem of mass  leaving  one  rotating
	tape reel and moving to the other on a continuous basis. That
	makes the math more interesting!


					Mike