"rotates on" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when describing an object or body part that is turning or spinning around a fixed point. Example: "The wheel rotates on its axle, providing movement to the car."
It is noteworthy that, because the bead is a spheroid having rotation symmetry, it is difficult to detect the rotation if it rotates on its axis with no axial run out.
In Philolaus' system the central fire remains invisible because the earth orbits the central fire as it rotates on its axis, thus keeping one side of the earth always turned away from the central fire.
The other leg is the one she stands and slowly, continuously rotates on.
I can't stop staring at one girl near me whose butt just naturally rotates on spin cycle while I feel like I am trying out for a bad porn movie that I definitely won't get cast in.
A metal bar rotates on a circular bed of sand, carving ridges in it with one side and smoothing them out with the other.
Neutrons have an internal angular moment, referred to as "spin" in physics, which causes rotation around magnetic fields similar to the way in which the earth rotates on its axis.
As the Earth rotates on its axis, that causes pressure differences around the world, Eden says.
It was that the Earth rotates on its axis, not that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
Unlike Earth, which rotates on a significant tilt to the Sun, the Moon is barely tilted at all.
Just as bullets are spun to steady their flight, Mr. Cameron's craft rotates on its vertical axis — another first.
A simple version of the spherical pendulum, the Foucault pendulum, is used to show that Earth rotates on its axis.
