The mystery of the skipping stone

The research has been conducted on repeatedly bouncing of the stone, when it is thrown across the surface of a lake and how many bounces can it perform. The phenomena of stone skipping can be understood using a number of tools and concepts from physics, such as hydrodynamics, elasticity, and capillarity. The experiments have shown that a bouncing stone must spin with a certain minimum rotational velocity to be stable. This stabilization is known as the gyroscopic effect, which states that stone must have minimum spin velocity roughly equal to the inverse of the collision time, to remain stable. This theory is applicable from spinning tops to the gyroscopes found on spacecraft.