Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site kovacs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!kovacs!rivero 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 Article-I.D.: kovacs.248 Posted: Tue Jul 9 22:44:57 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 06:56:26 EDT References: <2498@mordor.UUCP> Reply-To: rivero@kovacs.UUCP (Michael Foster Rivero) Organization: Robt Abel & Assoc, Hollywood Lines: 17 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