RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS:

Branicki M., Shimomura Y., Dynamics of an axisymmetric body spinning on a horizontal surface. IV. Stability of steady spin states and the ‘rising egg' phenomenon for convex axisymmetric bodies,  Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A   462, 3253-3275, (2006) 
Branicki M., Moffatt H. K., Shimomura Y.,  Dynamics of an axisymmetric body spinning on a horizontal surface. III. Geometry of steady states for a general axisymmetric body,  Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A  462, 371-390, (2006) 
Shimomura Y., Branicki M., Moffatt H. K., Dynamics of an axisymmetric body spinning on a horizontal surface. II. Self-induced jumping,  Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A   461, 1753-1774, (2005) 
Moffatt H. K., Shimomura Y.,  Branicki M.,  Dynamics of an axisymmetric body spinning on a horizontal surface. I. Stability and the gyroscopic approximation, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A   460, 3643-3672, (2004)http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1098/rspa.2006.1727http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1098/rspa.2006.1727http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1098/rspa.2005.1586http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1098/rspa.2005.1586http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1098/rspa.2004.1429http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1098/rspa.2004.1429http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1098/rspa.2004.1329http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1098/rspa.2004.1329shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7
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Branicki M., Localised dissipation-induced instabilities along  slow manifolds in nonholonomic dynamical systems

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