gyroscope's Usage Examples:

If you have a toy gyroscope at home, you can easily observe this effect yourself.

Figure 5. molecular gyroscope made of the CB[5]@CB[10] complex One of the main problems encountered with CB is its poor solubility in water.

A rapidly spinning gyroscope is at the heart of the gyrocompass.

hold the gyroscope firmly by the ends and pull the string all the way out as quickly as you can.

gyroscope technology, detecting your movements and automatically taking you where you want to go.

The flying gyroscope has been thrown over 600 feet.

For his demonstration in 1851 of the diurnal motion of the earth by the rotation of the plane of oscillation of a freely suspended, long and heavy pendulum exhibited by him at the Pantheon in Paris, and again in the following year by means of his invention the gyroscope, he received the Copley medal of the Royal Society in 1855, and in the same year he was made physical assistant in the imperial observatory at Paris.

This matter can be strikingly illustrated with an ordinary gyroscope, e.g.

in the case of the flywheel of a gyroscope if we neglect the friction at the bearings.

Thus in the gyroscope the flywheel (represented by the globe in fig.

Synonyms:

rotating mechanism, gyro, gyrocompass, gyrostabiliser, gyrostabilizer,