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### Gyroscopic precession force translated 90 degrees? [duplicate]

I was watching a video on propeller gyroscopic effect, please take a look at this 1 minute segment (up to 6:06): https://youtu.be/QGWbjGqmoWo?t=307 Alternatively, here is a summarizing image from ...
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### How do you explain spinning tops to a nine year old?

Why don't spinning tops fall over? (The young scientist version) My nine year old son asked me this very question when playing with his "Battle Strikers" set. Having studied Physics myself, I am very ...
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### What causes precession or nutation in a spinning object?

What causes precession in a spinning object? What causes nutation in a spinning object? What causes a top, gyroscope, and the earth to wobble? Just because it's a simple question, I'm not expecting ...
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### What's the deal with the gyroscope?

In this article ("The problem with physics", Tony Rothman, ABC science) the author says in the 5$^\textrm{th}$ paragraph: For example, one needs only first-semester equations to describe reasonably ...
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### Gyroscope precession

I have a system diagrammed and explained in the image below. Experimentally I believe the wheel will rotate around the pivot point where the cable is attached in a counter-clock motion if observed ...
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### Gyroscopic precession - Angular momentum in vertical direction

In the classic example of gyroscopic precession, the wheel starts to process, and now acquires a angular moment also in the vertical direction. Initial angular momentum was in a single plane. The one ...
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### How is a perpendicular angular momentum origin in gyroscopic precession?

Assume in the given diagram, $\theta = 0$, for sake of simplicity Then, I understand there exists an initial angular momentum in the y-direction and a torque in the X direction of the gyroscope. This ...
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### Is it possible to understand the Gyroscope Effect Intuitively?

A stationary wheel, with its axis tied only at one end, falls down, but a rotating wheel, with its axis tied only at one end, doesn't fall down. The explanation given everywhere is by the ...
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### Which force acts as centripetal force on gyroscope?

I think I have understood gyroscope in terms of angular momentum and how the torque of gravitational force moves it the way it does. Also I understand the direction in which it would move: What ...
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### Can/Does angular momentum apply a torque?

Context I'm a psychologist and I'm interested in perception of gyroscopic forces. For that reason, I'm having to think about many of the classic issues relating to gyroscopes in reverse. That is, ...
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### Balance of a rolling coin

If we place a typical coin on a table, it will almost immediately fall due to gravity. However, with a little push it will roll and not fall anymore until friction eventually slows it down enough to ...
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### Why does the gyroscope not move upwards?

I have been watching a lot of videos on gyroscopes. Everything I see says there are two steps in gyro precession: Gravity pulls down imparting a torque The gyroscope moves forward It seems to me ...
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### Dose the gravitational force produces precession in the spinning top?

I'm new at classical mechanics but the text book says there is the torque in the spinning top which generated only by gravitation. It is hard to explain the situation, I've add the link. http://...
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### Which way does a symmetric top precess and why?

I'm calculating the (instantaneous) rate of precession of a symmetric top (i.e. $I_1=I_2\neq I_3$) that is tilted at angle $\theta$ to the vertical if a torque $\vec{G}$ is applied, as shown below: ...
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### Start of gyroscopic precession

Let's consider the classical example, the wheel hung by one side of the axle: ¹ When the wheel is not spinning, it will tilt down the free end of the axle first. When the wheel is spinning, it will ...
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### How does a gyroscope flip?

Consider a gyroscope which is hanging with a string. Is it possible to $flip$ the orientation of the a gyroscope by oscillating the point of suspension? How does it come out mathematically?
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### Angular momentum and Gyroscopic precession of a top [closed]

When a top is spinning in the counterclockwise direction as seen from above.Suppose its axis of rotation making an angle of 15º with the vertical.I am trying to find the angular momentum of this top ...
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### Confusion about what happens when the rotating axis of a gyroscope is rotated

In A.P. French's Newtonian Mechanics, pages $684$ and $685$ , the author said the following about gyroscopes, If a gyroscope, mounted in its gimbal rings, is set spinning about a horizontal axis, ...
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### Why does an increase in height decrease the spin time of a spinning top?

We know that an increase in height of a spinning top decreases the time it spins for without toppling. Why does this happen? I suspect that this is connected to the fact that an increase in height of ...
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### Anti-gravity wheel?

So I was just watching some YouTube videos on a spinning wheel that seemed to "defy" gravity. The creator made two videos on it, the first showing the wheel, and the second with an attempt ...
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### What is the rate at which a precessing top falls over?

From the following equation from hyperphysics, as rotational speed $\omega$ decreases, precession speed $\omega_p$ increases. However, from what we observe physically, as rotational speed of the top ...
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### Angular velocity, Angular Momentum and Torque considered vectors to explain gyroscope precession and related phenomena? [closed]

Are angular velocity, angular momentum and torque "real" vectors in the sense that acceleration and force are? Or are they only considered vectors to explain phenomena like gyroscope ...
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### Impulse on a Gyroscope

I've been studying gyroscopes, and I understand why a fast spinning gyroscope doesn't fall. However, I don't understand why a slow spinning gyroscope does fall, or why a large enough impulse to a fast ...
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### Can you explain gyroscopic precession using only Newton's three linear laws without applying their angular cousins?

Is there an intuitive approach to understand gyroscopic motion based on Newton's laws without passing through angular momentum conservation?
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### Gyroscope physics

I'm not a physics student, but am attempting to better understand gyroscope physics. Also my first post here. So, I'm looking at this site, at the second diagram with F_1 and F_2, and reading the ...
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### How much force is required to break precession

Gravity, in this diagram, provides a downward force creating a torque that causes the wheel to precess around the chain. This is cool but counter intuitive, and I am wondering what force is needed to ...
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### What happens when you try to turn a gyroscope with high torque?

I apologize for my lack of basic understanding of gyro-physics, I tried looking up internet, but couldn't find any answer for this particular question. I have been told that if I apply torque to the ...
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### Basic Understanding Of Angular Momentum

I am trying to understand angular momentum in the same visceral way that I understand linear momentum, e.g., if someone rolls a bowling ball towards me then it is “natural” to me that I must apply a ...