ehhh my head hurts...
so what is keeping up the wheel?
can you just tell me in straightforward...I really can't figure it out myself.
Thank you so much for your help btw.
"The gyroscope seems to defy gravity because the torque created by the spinning wheel counteracts the torque due to gravity. Gyroscopes have been used through history for varied uses such as stabilizing spacecraft or for guidance systems on ships and missiles."
I found this explanation on a...
Thanks for the warm welcome and reply!
ughhh...this is so hard to grasp.
"The wheel cannot drop towards the floor because the gravitational torque only accounts for horizontal change in angular momentum of the wheel."
What I am trying to explain there is why the wheel resists dropping (ie...
Homework Statement
Hi,
I'm taking AP Physics in high school, and the explanation I wrote is based on a demo in class, something like this picture:
When the wheel is spinning, there is an angular momentum facing away from the string along the axis of rotation of the wheel. The gravitational...