Recent content by Trackmann

About reinventing the wheel Remarks like that always get to me. I looked at all the posts and no one seems to suggest to reinvent anything. Every time I heard that remark in the past, it was used as a put-down. Besides, the invention of the wheel wasn't that great of an achievement...

Hello Chronos, I think the coriolis effect only applies to matter not rigidly attached to planet earth, such as wind, the atmosphere, airplanes and projectiles. Also, your answer seems to imply that I am not sure as to what causes the gyroscope to precess. It is the rotation of the Earth...

Hello kld15 Google "Mercotac" They have all kinds of slip ring type connectors. The Leslie loudspeaker company used connectors like that to connect their rotating loudspeakers. Somewhere I've seen a low cost rotatable connector for telephone cables, to prevent twisting. Ralf

Hello All, When a spinning gyroscope with two degrees of freedom sits on the surface of the Earth, with its spin axis perpendicular to the Earth and its inner gimbal aligned east to west, it will precess. What I would like to know is, how much torque is produced about the east-west axis when...