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fisico30
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hello forum,
we all know that a rotation wheel, a rotating football, etc.. maintain their direction of motion with more stability than if they were not spinning...
A bicycle wheel is suspended from one of end of its axie by a rope, and spun up by hand. The wheel's axle is then placed horizontally and the free end of the axle processes about the supported end.
here the MIT video:
Why does that happen from a simple conceptual point of view? Why do the spinning parts of a spinning object give the object itself this stability?
I understand the formulas and the angular momentum explanation but I am wondering how we can explain this interesting phenomenon, this dynamical equilibrium, from the point of view of the rotating parts...
fisico30
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we all know that a rotation wheel, a rotating football, etc.. maintain their direction of motion with more stability than if they were not spinning...
A bicycle wheel is suspended from one of end of its axie by a rope, and spun up by hand. The wheel's axle is then placed horizontally and the free end of the axle processes about the supported end.
here the MIT video:
Why does that happen from a simple conceptual point of view? Why do the spinning parts of a spinning object give the object itself this stability?
I understand the formulas and the angular momentum explanation but I am wondering how we can explain this interesting phenomenon, this dynamical equilibrium, from the point of view of the rotating parts...
fisico30
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