A Note On Stability of Steady Motion of a Rolling Disk

2005/07/15 by M Batista, Milan Batista, Batista, M
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0507124

3 pages, 1 figure

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Abstract

This note adds some critical remarks on the discussion presented in the McDonald's paper ([1]) on stability of steady motion of the well known problem of a disk rolling on a rough horizontal plane.

Citations

• The Rolling Motion of a Disk on a Horizontal Plane

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