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A spinning top, or simply a top, is a toy with a squat body and a sharp point at the bottom, designed to be spun on its vertical axis, balancing on the tip due to the gyroscopic effect. Once set in motion, a top will usually wobble for a few seconds, spin upright for a while, then start to wobble again with increasing amplitude as it loses ...
A rattleback is a semi-ellipsoidal top which will rotate on its axis in a preferred direction. If spun in the opposite direction, it becomes unstable, "rattles" to a stop and reverses its spin to the preferred direction. For most rattlebacks the motion will happen when the rattleback is spun in one direction, but not when spun in the other.
ForeverSpin is a Canadian company that manufactures metal spinning tops, which have a similar appearance to the top seen in the 2010 film Inception. [3] The company funded the initial manufacture of its tops through crowdfunding campaigns. [4] [better source needed] [5] [better source needed]
This form includes launching the top with one hand, as the name implies. The string is wrapped normally, but now the spinner needs to use greater dexterity and coordination to grip and release the top with just one hand. The Long-Distance Spin, Finally In this form, the spinner must throw the Pambaram a distance and try to get it to land spinning.
Spinjas is a ratcheted spinning top game created by Tomy and distributed in North America by Parker Brothers in the late 1980s. The game set was sold as a Battle Stadium plastic arena with two Power Winder launchers and two Spinja characters enclosed within the arena, which doubles as a storage case.
The stem may be used as a handle to pick up the top, and is also used to spin the top into motion. When a tippe top is spun at a high angular velocity, its stem slowly tilts downwards more and more until it suddenly lifts the body of the spinning top off the ground, with the stem now pointing downward. Eventually, as the top's spinning rate ...
"Okay, you have to stop the Q-tip when there's resistance." Here is the moment immortalized on YouTube: There you have it, Chandler's best quip -- from the one who played Chandler himself.
A spinning top is a type of toy. Spinning top may also refer to: Spinning top (candlestick pattern), a Japanese candlestick pattern; The Spinning Top, a 2009 album by Graham Coxon; Spinning Top, a 2015 sculpture by Maurycy Gomulicki; The Spinning Topps, characters in Sliders "Spinning Top", a song by Nazareth, a B-side of the 1973 single "Bad ...