Conservative Motion of Discrete, Tetrahedral Top on a Smooth Horizontal Plane

dc.contributor.author	Greenspan, Donald	en
dc.date.accessioned	2010-06-08T18:37:56Z	en
dc.date.available	2010-06-08T18:37:56Z	en
dc.date.issued	1996	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10106/2400	en
dc.description.abstract	Please note that the full text is embargoed ABSTRACT: Tetrahedral tops are simulated as discrete, rigid bodies in rotation by introducing a molecular mechanics formulation. The contact point of the top with the XY plane is allowed to move in the plane. The conservative, dynamical differential equations are solved numerically in such a fashion that all the system invariants are preserved. Examples which include precession, nutation, cusp formation, and looping are described and discussed.	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	University of Texas at Arlington	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Technical Report;316	en
dc.subject	Computer simulation	en
dc.subject	Rigid body motion	en
dc.subject	Molecular mechanics	en
dc.subject	Differential equations	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Mathematics Research	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Mechanics, Applied	en
dc.title	Conservative Motion of Discrete, Tetrahedral Top on a Smooth Horizontal Plane	en
dc.type	Technical Report	en
dc.publisher.department	Department of Mathematics	en