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Tennis racket theorem

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The tennis racket theorem is a result in classical mechanics describing movement of a rigid body with three distinct angular momenta. It also dubbed Dzhanibekov effect named after Russian astronaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov who discovered in while in space.

References

Mark S. Ashbaugh, Carmen C. Chicone and Richard H. Cushman, The Twisting Tennis Racket, Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations, Volume 3, Number 1, 67-85.
Dzhanibekov effect video demonstrated on the International Space Station

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