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1Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 50670-901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Abstract:
We study the dynamical response of a circularly driven rigid body, focusing on the description of intrinsic rotational behavior (reverse rotations). The model system we address is integrable but nontrivial, allowing for qualitative and quantitative analysis. A scale-free expression defining the separation between possible spinning regimes is obtained.
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