Solid Cylinder Rolling in a Turnable Hollow Cylinder

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A small solid cylinder rolls inside a hollow cylinder that can turn around its symmetry axis. It is assumed that the small cylinder cannot slide. Furthermore, the differential equation used here is only exact for small amplitudes.

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


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