Title | : | MIT Physics Demo -- Bicycle Wheel Gyroscope |
Duration | : | 1 minute, 29 seconds |
Uploader | : | mittechtv |
Added On: | : | 04 November, 2008 |
Views | : | 828.9K times |
Likes | : | 0 |
Source | : | YouTube |
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.The gyroscope seems to defy gravity because the torque cre