On 3 June 2011 21:36, Stuart Stevenson <stus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> the motion would be a circle

I don't think it is. Even in the case of two equal-diameter tubes at
right-angles it is an ellipse (a special case of a conic section, for
a cylinder)
Projected along the axis of either tube it is a circle, but in its own
containing plane it is an ellipse.

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atp
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