Nonintegrability of the problem of a spherical top rolling on a vibrating plane

This paper investigates the rolling motion of a spherical top with an axisymmetric mass distribution on a smooth horizontal plane performing periodic vertical oscillations. For the system under consideration, equations of motion and conservation laws are obtained. It is shown that the system admits two equilibrium points corresponding to uniform rotations of the top about the vertical symmetry axis. The equilibrium point is stable when the center of mass is located below the geometric center, and is unstable when the center of mass is located above it. The equations of motion are reduced to a system with one and a half degrees of freedom. The reduced system is represented as a small perturbation of the problem of the Lagrange top motion. Using Melnikov’s method, it is shown that the stable and unstable branches of the separatrix intersect transversally with each other. This suggests that the problem is nonintegrable. Results of computer simulation of the top dynamics near the unstable equilibrium point are presented.

On the Stability of the rotation under the action of constant momentum Lagrangian top with perfect fluid in a resisting medium

The rotation around a fixed point of a heavy dynamically symmetric solid body with an arbitrary asymmetric cavity completely filled with an ideal in-compressible liquid is considered. The stability of a uniform rotation of a Lagrang' top with the ideal liquid in a resisting medium under condition of a given constant moment is investigated. The equation of the perturbed motion of the Lagrang' top with the ideal liquid is presented. It is proved the follow-ing: the asymptotic stability of uniform rotation for an ellipsoidal cavity will be only for a compressed ellipsoidal cavity. It has been observed that most practically important cases consider the main effect of the ideal liquid influence on the motion of a solid can be researched by means of considering only the fundamental tone of the liquid oscillation. Conditions of uniform rotation asymptotic stability in a resistive medium under the action of the Lagrange top' constant moment with an arbitrary axisymmetric cavity containing an ideal liquid are obtained. Stability conditions are derived with provisions for the main and additional tones of liquid oscillations. The heavy solid body with the fixed-point value is ex-posed to the action of a constant moment in the inertial coordinate system. Analytic and numerical investigations of the main and additional tones of liquid oscillations influence, over-turning, restoring, dissipative and constant moments on the conditions of the asymptotic stability of the uniform rotation of the Lagrange top with an ideal liquid are carried out. It is stated the following: cubic and square inequalities presented in the paper are conditions of asymptotic stability if the basic tone of liquid fluctuations will be mentioned. Stability region numerical studies have been carried out on the example of an ellipsoidal cavity. It is presented that increasing of the equatorial moment of inertia of the solid body de-creases its stability region as well as the increasing of the solid body inertia axial moment in-creases the last one.

Estimates of the average angular velocity of the precession of Lagrange's top

Guaranteed upper and lower estimates of the increment in the precession angle per nutation angle period under nondegenerate motions of a Lagrange top have been obtained in the article.