precession

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The rate of precession depends on the strength of the muon’s internal magnet and is proportional to a factor that we call g.

From Scientific American

“I think ‘precession’ is a more specific word than wobble.”

From New York Times

Ghez and colleagues are now trying to tease out that precession from the extremely complicated data.

From Science Magazine

The football also undergoes precession and this motion creates an aerodynamic twisting that, on average, pushes the nose of the football down, the physicists showed.

From New York Times

Their heads spin in one direction, while the tail rotates around it in the opposite direction in a process known as precession—much like Earth spinning on its axis while orbiting the Sun.

From Science Magazine