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Description: When a top is spinning it flips over to spin on its stem. Parts: toy tippee top Quant. in Demo Room: 1 Demo References The Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations Disc 07-17 The tippe top flips. Meiners 13-3.1 Show that the tippe top spins in the opposite of the expected direction when inverted. Freier and Anderson Mu-17 The tippe top flips when spun. The Physics Teacher TPT 16(5),322 A brief review of the history of the tippe top problem. The American Journal of Physics AJP 28(4),407 A tippe top was spun on smoked glass. Photos show the path of the stem until flip and the soot marks on the top.
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