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At first glance, this looks like an excellent textbook.

Personally, my favourite theorem in classical mechanics is the so called 'tennis racket theorem', sometimes known as the 'intermediate axis theorem'.

It explains why objects with roughly three different moments of intertia have unstable rotation about their intermediate moment.

It can be easily demonstrated with a tennis racket, or even most smartphones (be careful not to break it though).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_racket_theorem



There's a link on that wikipedia page to this youtube demo which makes it really obvious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dqCQqI-Gis




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