Tippe Top - The Spinning Top that flips itself over when it is spun!

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This is a fascinating spinning top with an interesting behaviour.
The 'Tippe Top' inverts itself when spinning at sufficient speed. It does this because its centre of mass does not coincide with the geometrical centre of sphere. This means that when spinning the bulbous top slides over the surface on which it is spinning and this friction and motion causes enough force to 'drive' the spinning top up and over until it is spinning on the stalk. Once on the stalk there are far less sliding forces and the top can now spin stably until it no longer has enough energy to sustain its speed and spin.
This Tippe Top is 29mm in diameter ( 1.14 inches ) and 36mm tall (1.41 inches )
You can buy this from:
www.gyroscope.c...
Detailed explanation of science and history behind the Tippie Top:
arxiv.org/pdf/...
Or
www.fysikbasen....
I hope that my understanding and explanation of this spinning tops behaviour is accurate. If anyone can suggest corrections or improvements, I am always happy to update and refine the text that accompanies my videos.

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@policematrixx 6 лет назад

I love videos like this why cant more people do it like this guy??

@Moostery 8 лет назад

I used to have a top heavy ring that I would spin. I spun it upside down and the thing righted itself with the gem facing up. I impressed so many people with that haha.

@TomStrong 8 лет назад

+Robert Briggs Now that sounds cool!

@Moostery 8 лет назад

Tom Strong Reviews Yeah, not long after I started showing people it everyone was doing it with their class rings at lunch. Then everyone just kinda got bored of doing it.

@TomStrong 8 лет назад

+Robert Briggs Still. Something to show the kids later on in life!

@Moostery 8 лет назад

Tom Strong Reviews haha, yeah that's true.

@jackoury2999 8 лет назад

Do you know what i need in my life every once and a while when I'm down and on the verge of being clinically insane? A proper Englishmen to say Aluminum like he knows what time the queen drinks her tea and feeds her corgis. This guy seems like a man that smokes his pipe while sits by his dutch oven stroking the head of a bloodhound. The type of guy who whispers "Damn Yanks," when they decide to let Donald J Trump get up in the poles. That is fucking class, mate.

@TomStrong 8 лет назад

+Jack Oury Sir, I offer totally non-professional advice. However, as an Englishman, I do have strong views on how tea should be made, perhaps watching a video about that I made some years ago will further sooth your mind and get you back to the point where you play and share more of your musical talent... :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sX1wx3UW6dw.html

@williamnixon4056 7 лет назад

Jack Oury polls

@jackoury2999 7 лет назад

William Nixon A year late mate.

@williamnixon4056 7 лет назад

Jack Oury ikr

@mugsytop 7 лет назад

Are you lot on the weed.

@EXRazeBurn 7 лет назад

Tippe Top? Huh, if I was naming the thing I would have gone with "Topsy Turvy", on account of things getting turned upside down. :3

@Wow-uk2on 4 года назад

my grandma gave me and my brother wooden ones that were painted red. She and my papa called them "cherry tops" because of how they looked. My brother and I never really learned how to spin them until recently. the cats think they're toys haha

@benjaminhalbersma3125 8 лет назад

I've done that with an acorn!!!!!!!!!!

@crewselect1835 8 лет назад

I actually made one of these out of wood!

@uktottys 8 лет назад

I had these 40 years ago in plastic!

@ardvarkkkkk1 8 лет назад

+uktottys Yes, so did I. They were everywhere.

@endless013 8 лет назад

+uktottys mine were wood

@StopSocialismUSA 7 лет назад

uktottys me too

@narsinghlal5571 7 лет назад

ha ha ha don't know what new this guy wants to show here

@jcfictionals1418 7 лет назад

i had them out of wood

@kevingantzer7573 7 лет назад

I think its cool - my Grandson will love it. I'm off to make one or maybe two myself

@cernscreen 7 лет назад

I have just bought one of these made out of wood, amazing to watch! Thanks for the explanation of the "why"

@TomStrong 7 лет назад

I have never seen a wooden one! Glad you found my video helpful.

@chintu9903 8 лет назад

i need one!!!

@DownhillAllTheWay 9 лет назад

I had one of these when I was a kid. It was made of plastic, but it had a "magic" component. It had a hole through its axis, with a metal nail though the hole. Before spinning it, if the top was pressed down onto the mushroom (with the stem uppermost), it would push the nail backward so that its head would lift very slightly at the end of the stem, and the top would invert when spun, as yours does. If, however, it was pressed down onto the stem, the nail pushed through just enough to form a tiny bump in the centre of the mushroom (that's "center" for ryelor123, but RU-vid isn't only visible to Americans), after which it could be handed to a friend, who would be unable to make it invert - it would spin on its little point and stay upright.

@DaltonBissellArt 8 лет назад

+Mike Collins that's an epic trick. I want it.

@subhabratadas8419 3 года назад

That looks like my artificial hip joint.

@silentferret1049 7 лет назад

Looks like the ball joint in a hip replacement or something.

@minnano_sdk 6 лет назад

good!!

@konekochan8997 3 года назад

When I was a kid my cousin gave me one made of plastic, it was spinning and flipping very nicely. I used to take it with me everywhere until I broke it by mistake. I glued it and broke it again.. I loved it alot. Now I bought this one but I can't spin it properly

@foreverkurome 2 года назад

I love this, I bought both the Tippe Top and Tippe Top XL and I spin them all the time in study breaks. I got an absolutely perfect spin a couple of times where it carried on spinning for around a minute and never actually inverted. I did wonder if a perfect and super fast spin would make this thing spin longer than Euler's Disk at least in Earth's gravity setting.

@TomStrong 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing!

@terryperring104 4 года назад

I'd like to see it in super slo-mo. When it changes

@TomStrong 4 года назад

Good idea! I now have a far better camera and might just get around to doing just that!

@sourjam4230 7 лет назад

I wanna spin that so bad

@milham975 7 лет назад

This can also be done with a ring that has an large stone, if spun on the rock it will turn over and spin right side. Try it yourself.

@_phisashi6819 8 лет назад

good mushroom i like it

@Fightre_Flighte 2 года назад

My brother used to have a plastic one of these. Quite good fun, that.

@brianeldredge6035 7 лет назад

Nice bracelet Tom Strong Reviews, whats it called ?

@TomStrong 7 лет назад

Thanks! It is a XL Bio Magnetic steel bangle. They are inexpensive. Here is one from a UK store: www.magnetic-products-store.com/supreme-range-magnetic-bangles/nile-super-strong-bio-magnetic-bangle.html

@brianeldredge6035 7 лет назад

thanks!

@kywri9559 6 лет назад

I own a chinese plastic version

@secretagent3764 8 лет назад

This is so freaking nice!

@TomStrong 8 лет назад

+Love Madrid It is amazing to watch.

@ThatHobbyHunter 7 лет назад

Very cool! Thank you!

@JOECRUEL1970 7 лет назад

Crazyrussianhacker just copied your idea and made a video of the tippe top. You have a right to protect your content.

@TomStrong 7 лет назад

Unless he has copied part or all of my video, he (and everyine else) is free to make videos about whatever they like. What little I know about crazyrussianhacker is that he makes his own videos.

@SteelArtschannel 8 лет назад

Love it !

@yoram9692 7 лет назад

I had things like this when I was a kid lol

@Tdiddy477 2 года назад

When I was about 10 years old, my step dad took me to a open house at his company, Rocketdyne. One of his coworkers was operating a CNC machine and produced tippy tops while you watched. I still have mine and treasure it.

@planespotter4494 Год назад

We used to have these as a child in the 1960s and 70s made from plastic. There was a slight imbalance moulded into an internal spoke under the mushroom head.

@GomJabbar11 10 лет назад

You can do the same thing with the plastic two-part easter eggs used to hide candy. Course you have to spin the crap out of them. Always wondered why they would flip over, thanks for the explanation.

@Solanacia 8 лет назад

I REMEMBER THESE AMG

@unclao 6 лет назад

You should try it on a friction less surface, like ice!

@TomStrong 6 лет назад

Whilst it would spin longer with lower friction, the behaviour would still be the same.

@sushilsc123 7 месяцев назад

if you spin it anti-clockwise (say with left hand) does it flip???

@TomStrong 6 месяцев назад

Rotation direction does not alter this. Still flips up on its point.

@cobrasvt347 3 года назад

God I love physics

@vangildermichael1767 6 лет назад

I saw somebody try that principle on ICE and it didn't work. You need some friction between the center of rotation and the surface where it is spinning to cause the stand up motion.

@こま実験小僧 5 лет назад

逆さになる原理は、重心と接地点を回転軸としますと、回転軸に対して独楽の形状が重心から遠ざかるほど出っ張りが大きいので、回転毎に出っ張った方に接地点が移動して重心が上になるようです。

@aaronfrederick8218 9 лет назад

Wonder how a magnetic one of these would work on a levitron Tom Strong Reviews

@TomStrong 9 лет назад

aaron frederick I keep thinking about buying a magnetic levitating device... Nice idea!

@aaronfrederick8218 9 лет назад

Just thinking of the physics, I would assume the top would flip based on the pos/neg charge of the magnet

@TomStrong 9 лет назад

aaron frederick This one is made of aluminium, so I would have to get one made of steel or at least some metal that included iron.

@davidkelly8869 7 лет назад

i seen n used wood ones

@ishdeath1950 8 лет назад

thumb tacks act sorta like this, if u spin it by the point in mid air it will fall and spin on the point on the surface

@jeanneschlegel6650 9 месяцев назад

Mine flips to the bottom, but neverjumps to the top of the pole.

@TomStrong 6 месяцев назад

It needs to be spinning really fast.

@t900HAWK 8 лет назад

clearly this man is using his telekinesis

@TomStrong 8 лет назад

+t900HAWK The world is not ready for such disclosure! For now lets just assume it is a spinning body observing all the known laws of physics...

@chaosgamez5596 7 лет назад

weird

@scottward1611 Год назад

That's what is going to happen to the center of the Earth.

@TomStrong Год назад

You are right that the centre of the earth is not attached to the crust as firmly as we might like to think. The poles have certainly switched in the past and will do so at some point in the future.

@sanubiankuastonished6116 7 лет назад

awesome

@Jpwillerd 2 года назад

I had one of those as a kid

@jamisco4432 7 лет назад

SCIENCE!!!

@TomStrong 7 лет назад

I really should do some more of these fun science videos. :)

@marygracedesuyo 8 лет назад

I had one but I thought it was broken so I gave it to my friend

@vitamin3076 6 месяцев назад

Can get this exact top spinning for over 5mins if it doesn't flip over like it's suppose to, definite neat either way.

@orangesoda5862 7 лет назад

This is a classic Japanese New Years toy

@TomStrong 7 лет назад

Do you know what they call this and why is it a commin gift ??

@orangesoda5862 7 лет назад

I do not know how to translate it into English but they were popular from a long time ago. It originated when poor children would spin acorns and when the toy makers tried to re-create that, they discovered that it moved strangely

@Wavester64 8 лет назад

Cool video.

@TomStrong 8 лет назад

Thanks. :)

@Oldlithgow257 7 лет назад

need to do it with a high speed camera

@TomStrong 7 лет назад

You are right! (Once funds allow I will do this at a higher FPS)

@steveb1972 9 лет назад

I've had loads of these over the years made with plastic!😊

@nicparker3809 7 лет назад

inverse law of quantum mechanics

@rasoljamalpour6312 2 года назад

سلام.برای خریداین فرفره ها چکاربایدکرد

@TomStrong 2 года назад

This translates as - "Hello. What did you spend to buy these curlers?" These are not expensive, circa £10 GBP

@AnswerEasy 6 лет назад

lol, could that happen to Earth xD

@TomStrong 6 лет назад

Interesting... Certainly there is evidence that the internal iron magnetic core and the earths crust seem to shift giving us 'reversed magnetic' poles... www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-poleReversal.html

@AnswerEasy 6 лет назад

The article seems to infer that because life was not affected by the last reversal then probably the axis wasn't affected but that's just inference. I was also seeing some videos on the Tennis Racket Theorem and it would suggest something similar to Earth has a whole shifting. I was aso curious if any celestial body has been observed having undergone such phenomenon, nature is amazing, and scary!

@TomStrong 6 лет назад

There is evidence that suggests the pole reversal occurs every few 100k years. Life has been around far longer than that, so whatever it does is not 'extinction' level even at its worsts. Even Homo sapiens have been around at least 300k (based on latest finds). motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbjbv8/homo-sapiens-human-evolution-discovery-morocco-jebel-irhoud

@brettlatulip67 8 лет назад

when a person draws their arms and legs in while skating they spin faster. is there a way to make small arms suddenly snap closed hard enough to make a top regain momentum just one time? Just letting my mind wander sorry:)

@MrJeepinZeke 7 лет назад

Brett Latulip If you could have a threaded center piece and the 'arms' were connected to it in a worn gear fashion so when spun the center shaft moved at a different speed than the body that the arms are on it could 'thread' them inward maybe? No idea how to accomplish this but it might work. I also like to let my mind wonder about these things:)

@brettlatulip67 7 лет назад

Oops...yeah...wonder:)

@reddodeado301 8 лет назад

I have done this before with something else that wasn't a top,I just can't remember what it was.

@richardfaccio4291 8 лет назад

I have a ring that does this

@Mark-xw5yt 7 лет назад

an acorn?

@ryelor123 9 лет назад

Its Aluminum, not 'aluminium'. And if you want to act arrogant about the pronunciation, the original term was 'Alumium'.

@TomStrong 9 лет назад

ryelor123 In case you couldn't guess I am from England where the element is called Aluminium and the way I pronounced it is how we say that word in the UK. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium This Wiki page explains the differences in spelling and also the very different phonetics. Let's just enjoy the differences. Same metal!

@DownhillAllTheWay 9 лет назад

ryelor123 Check the stats - there are a lot more non-Americans looking at RU-vid than there are Americans. Don't you think it a little arrogant to argue that the world should conform to the American viewpoint? Oh, hang on - I just remembered - there *is* no world ouside of the good ol' USA!

@himadrisamanta3523 9 лет назад

+ryelor123 Those brits indeed have some accents.

@DownhillAllTheWay 9 лет назад

+Himadri Samanta We all have accents.

@himadrisamanta3523 9 лет назад

+Mike Collins Sorry to learn my joke fell flat. It was funny to me that we are saying that Brits are pronouncing English language wrong way. After all it is their language. It is us who have the accent - not them. It is same as saying Newton did not know calculus or Steve Job did not know how to use iPad. Cheers.

@matthewstanley1521 4 года назад

I’d love to see a Beyblade that could do that

@marygracedesuyo 8 лет назад

Any way,he still has it

@Yanileviathan 6 лет назад

sunrise from the west

@spy5333 7 лет назад

my friend has dis

@charlesdjones1 7 лет назад

Alu-mini-um

@enb3810 8 лет назад

Film the flip at 2500 fps

@TomStrong 8 лет назад

+Eric Bowling I really would love to own a camera that could work that fast!! Maybe one day. :)

@lucasbrucas9632 8 лет назад

wow, you sound like thunderfoot

@TomStrong 8 лет назад

Thanks - I think! ...maybe he sounds like me!?! ;)

@lucasbrucas9632 8 лет назад

Tom Strong Reviews depends on whos older :p

@TomStrong 8 лет назад

Thats good logic. (I am not telling) :)

@lucasbrucas9632 8 лет назад

Tom Strong Reviews fair enough

@mobilityrp3888 7 лет назад

I've done this with plenty of other things. Actually you can even use a ring, as long as the ring has a big end and thin end.

@nicolaidamgaard605 9 лет назад

ahh we had those in school :D

@DeansVideoClips 9 лет назад

It needs a point on the stalk.

@TomStrong 9 лет назад

DeansVideoClips It has a round tip to the stalk. so that is in-effect a point as only one small part of that curved end contacts the flat surface at any point.

@DeansVideoClips 9 лет назад

Hi Tom, I saw that, I guess it didn't look all that rounded on the video... Interesting little top from a physics perspective especially!

@TomStrong 9 лет назад

DeansVideoClips I agree. I find items like this fascinating. Makes you really try to understand what is happening.

@jbw5485 7 лет назад

get a concave mirror like what's used with a eulers disk. cool little top.

@tacitblue1973 8 лет назад

This type of top through conservation of motion actually reverses its spin direction while inverted.

@MoreiraSavio 7 лет назад

Why i'm even watching this :O

@zainasif8082 7 лет назад

Story of most guys who have an evil girlfriend. xD

@djcruise1111 10 лет назад

This is yuki seimitsu product in Japan.i have this one.

@TomStrong 10 лет назад

I am sure they look similar - but this is from the UK company called: gyroscope. I put the link you can follow to the actual item in the comment seconds of my video.