User Tools

Site Tools


demonstrations:1_mechanics:1q_rotational_dynamics:gyroscopic_action_2:start

Gyroscopic Action 2

Description

Gyroscopic Action

The spinning wheel will precess when it is suspended by its string.

Purpose

To show gyroscopic action of a weighted wheel supported at one end of the shaft only.

Apparatus

special bicycle wheel, string

Setup

Spin wheel rapidly. Shaft of wheel will turn anticlockwise with the wheel rotating one direction. The shaft will turn in the opposite direction when the wheel is rotating the other way.

The folks over at HowStuffWorks demonstrate this. http://science.howstuffworks.com/gyroscope1.htm

Notes

Demo room information

Location LMN0
Maker Unknown
Current State Working
demonstrations/1_mechanics/1q_rotational_dynamics/gyroscopic_action_2/start.txt · Last modified: 2020/02/10 16:58 by demoroom