Signatures of physical constraints in rotating rigid bodies
Classical Physics
2023-07-12 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We study signatures of physical constraints on free rotations of rigid bodies. We show analytically that the physical or non-physical nature of the moments of inertia of a system can be detected by qualitative changes both in the Montgomery Phase and in the Tennis Racket Effect.
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@article{arxiv.2302.01758,
title = {Signatures of physical constraints in rotating rigid bodies},
author = {G. J. Gutierrez Guillen and E. Aldo Arroyo and P. Mardesic and D. Sugny},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.01758},
year = {2023}
}
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28 pages, 8 figures