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  1. Hi all, I'm a little confused. I thought that an object that has a spinning axis (a wheel, gyroscop, etc.) will have an angular momentum that tends to maintain the spinning axis. Now, I've been throwing stuffs in my garden, like a playing card, or a pizza's cardboard support. I give it some spin upon throwing away, and the spinning axis will rotate (this new rotation axis is parallel to the absolute motion trajectory) (and no it's not due to a blast of wind, silly). It always turns the same way ; if the initial spin is clockwise (top-view), the axis rotation will be clockwise (back-view). There must be a way to explain it with dextro/levro-rotation vocabulary but i'm too tired to come up with the right thing. Anyways, I don't get where does that new rotation comes from. I suppose a frisbee is designed to avoid this rotation. Why not a flat cardboard ? I've tried to consider other different parameters, such as the lightness of the object, or the Magnus effect, but I just don't see what this would have to do. Please illuminate my knowledge ! Thanks, Cheers
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