The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained
Veritasium makes my day, again. When I started working as a carpenter (a half century ago) I remember one of the crew demonstrating that tossing a hammer so that the handle flipped around the head resulted in the face of the hammer head facing the opposite direction. At the time I thought it was a little odd, but it did this every time. As I had no explanation for it, I just filed it away as just one more property of this weird world we live in.
Good to know that the earth will not flip after all. And it would never occur to me to flip my tennis racket along the intermediate axis; how dorky is that? But thanks for the excellent explanation.
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James