Demonstrating gyro effect - 8000rpm flywheel

Spinning flywheel demonstrates the gyroscopic effect. I don't understand how or why it does what it does, but I know it is cool!

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[BoomBoxDeluxe]

Oh my goodness! How bizarre! It's almost as if you've discovered a way to break loose from gravity! :-D

Next, see if you can get the device to float in mid-air without any strings or screws holding it up and things like that, and then it'll be super-amazing!

I'm definitely adding this one to my favourites! :-D

ALSO! I wonder how long it would keep spinning like that if the flywheel was inside a vacuum chamber, without air putting any drag on it?

It'd probably go for a few hours! :-D

-BBD.

[HDXFH]

That is Cool, I think it has something to do with Centrifugal Force!

[theirisheditor]

While I know satellites use gyroscopes to maintain their direction, this is the first time I've seen it demonstrated. I wonder if this could be done large scale, e.g. a temporary/deployable bridge that rests on the pier at one end and kept upgright by a large gyroscope, unless of course the gyroscope would need to be too large or require a ultra-high RPM that would cause it to rupture.

[randyfromm]

The torque on the gyroscope is supplied by a couple of forces: gravity acting downward on the device's centre of mass, and an equal force acting upward to support one end of the device. The rotation resulting from this torque is not downward, as might be intuitively expected, causing the device to fall, but perpendicular to both the gravitational torque (horizontal and perpendicular to the axis of rotation) and the axis of rotation (horizontal and outwards from the point of support).

[steviebboy69]

@RODALCO2007 geez that is amazing i seem to be looking at the stuff you look at heheh. gee youtube uses a lot of your time. but better than TV

[RODALCO2007]

That is amazing !

[ElectronSpark]

I liked the 'orbit' the last attained when put on the string.

[zcfeng8]

This is excellent! I have not seen a more dramatic demonstration of the gyroscopic effect.