Möbius Strip Made from a Rotating Bar

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The center of a bar moves around a circle while it rotates in the moving vertical plane perpendicular to the circle. The position of the bar is shown at regular intervals. When the bar completes half a vertical turn in one rotation around a circle, its images form a Möbius strip.

Contributed by: Sándor Kabai (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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