Precession of a flywheel

Precession of a rotating flywheel on a support.
For more related figures, please see the “angular momentum” and “torque” tag.

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% Author: Izaak Neutelings (October 2020)
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\usepackage{physics}
\usepackage{tikz}
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\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}
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