Kovalevskaya top (nonfiction)

Kovalevskaya top after Hermann Schwarz.

A Kovalevskaya top is a symmetric top in which two moments of inertia are equal, the third is half as large, and the center of gravity is located in the plane perpendicular to the symmetry axis (parallel to the plane of the two equal points).

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Mathematician
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Mathematician (nonfiction)
• Mathematics (nonfiction)

External links

• Lagrange, Euler, and Kovalevskaya tops @ Wikipedia

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