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    Why is a gyroscope's precession fastest at 45 degrees?

    Is there a centrifugal force that acts on the rotor? I found on a website: http://www.gyroscopes.org/forum/questions.asp?id=1533 "The centrifugal force when the arm is at 45 degrees above or below horizontal would be about 70.7 percent of what it is at horizontal. Of course the centrifugal...
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    Why is a gyroscope's precession fastest at 45 degrees?

    I did an experiment in which I varied the starting angle of elevation of a gyroscope. I noticed that at 45 degrees, the precessional period (amount of time to perform one spin) is the lowest, while at 0 degrees and 75 degrees, the precessional period is higher. If I plotted this on a graph, it...
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