{"id":116369,"date":"2015-08-19T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=321a781e90b0153bb8c4c62b949e633b"},"modified":"2015-08-19T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T23:00:00","slug":"stability-of-vertical-and-horizontal-axis-levitrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=116369","title":{"rendered":"Stability of vertical and horizontal axis Levitrons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stability of the new horizontal axis Levitron 3 is compared with that of the vertical axis<br \/>\ndevice. The rotation frequency ranges are similar because they are determined by the same<br \/>\nprecessional micro-trap, for which some theory is given. But the macro-trap of the horizontal axis<br \/>\nsystem gives it far greater mechanical stability. Field-line studies allow this to be more easily<br \/>\nvisualized. The greater stability allows for educational experiments which could only be<br \/>\ncontemplated with the old Levitron: driven precession and nutation and motion along the field lines.<br \/>\nThese experiments illustrate some very fundamental space dynamics and several other topics. The<br \/>\nenhanced stability may also lead to electro-mechanical applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stability of the new horizontal axis Levitron 3 is compared with that of the vertical axis<br \/>\ndevice. The rotation frequency ranges are similar because they are determined by the same<br \/>\nprecessional micro-trap, for which some theory is given. But the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-116369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}