Re: North Pole

["RAUBER, JOEL" <JOEL_RAUBER@SDSTATE.EDU>]

John D.

I took a gander at the below URL.  Nice drawings!  I'm curious as to what
drawing package you use to produce the drawings.

Joel R.

> 2) OTOH if we move beyond mere talk to actually physically
> _causing_ the precession, we would need a pretty hefty cause.
> Precession involves adding angular momentum to something
> that already has angular momentum.
>
> http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/how/htm/motion.html#fig-angular-p
> recession
> The thing causing the precession doesn't need to accumulate
>
> it over a half-cycle or so.  So if it is going to cause
> precession of the earth's spin, it will have to be bigger
> than a breadbox.


This posting is the position of the writer, and I'm not too sure of that
either.

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.