Tag: spinningtop

One of my favourite memories of my physics classes at university is of the day when the professor brought in metal paper clips for everybody — to make spinning tops! When we were playing with the drawing spinning top recently, my mom brought back the paper clip one that I had made some 15 years […]

A new physics toy in my house: A spinning top that has a pen as its tip and leaves trajectories as it spins! The trajectories are really cool. Depending on how you spin the spinning top, they look really different. But they all have a common feature: When the spinning top has slowed down, they end […]