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2006-11-09 16:10:18 · 4 answers · asked by koteswararao u 2 in Science & Mathematics Engineering

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A gyroscope is a device for measuring or maintaining orientation, based on the principle of conservation of angular momentum. The essence of the device is a spinning wheel on an axle. The device, once spinning, tends to resist changes to its orientation due to the angular momentum of the wheel. In physics this phenomenon is also known as gyroscopic inertia or rigidity in space.


The gyroscope effect was discovered in 1817 by Johann Bohnenberger and invented and named in 1852 by Léon Foucault for an experiment involving the rotation of the Earth. Foucault's experiment to see (skopeein, to see) the Earth's rotation (gyros, circle or rotation) was unsuccessful due to friction, which effectively limited each trial to 8 to 10 minutes, too short a time to observe significant movement. In the 1860s, however, electric motors made the concept feasible, leading to the first prototype gyrocompasses; the first functional marine gyrocompass was developed between 1905 and 1908 by German inventor Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe. The American Elmer Sperry followed with his own design in 1910, and other nations soon realized the military importance of the invention—in an age in which naval might was the most significant measure of military power—and created their own gyroscope industries. The Sperry Gyroscope Company quickly expanded to provide aircraft and naval stabilizers as well, and other gyroscope developers followed suit.[1]

In the first several decades of the 20th century, other inventors attempted (unsuccessfully) to use gyroscopes as the basis for early black box navigational systems by creating a stable platform from which accurate acceleration measurements could be performed (in order to bypass the need for star sightings to calculate position). Similar principles were later employed in the development of inertial guidance systems for ballistic missiles.[

2006-11-10 03:38:08 · answer #1 · answered by Mysterious 3 · 1 0

Marriage isn't organic, that is an organization created by people. Or do you imagine that in pre-civilizated societies marriage existed? So, if once people created this employer and idea it may nicely be the union between a guy and a lady. Now we may be able to create a clean employer or regulate this one with the intention to allow 2 persons of an similar sex to be referred to as a pair --legally and why not? spiritualy. what's organic regulation? i mean the single which comes from god? or the single which comes from our reason? it really is --for me-- an rather relative argument that that is ordinary to easily look after after we are deeply non secular and look after faith dogmas. yet once you don´t that is amazingly complicated. So what's organic? i trust that if homosexuality exists, then that is organic, how can we are saying something is un-organic no matter if that is in our nature?? Now as for "floor norms of the society"...wow!! what a rethoric empty little observe. What are those? Morals? nicely, there are societies that approve the homo legal union, there are others that do not, that is an argument of morality.

2016-11-28 23:51:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

A gyroscope is a device for measuring or maintaining orientation, based on the principle of conservation of angular momentum. The essence of the device is a spinning wheel on an axle. The device, once spinning, tends to resist changes to its orientation due to the angular momentum of the wheel. In physics this phenomenon is also known as gyroscopic inertia or rigidity in space.
Gyrostat
A gyrostat is a variant of the gyroscope. The first gyrostat was designed by Lord Kelvin to illustrate the more complicated state of motion of a spinning body when free to wander about on a horizontal plane, like a top spun on the pavement, or a hoop or bicycle on the road. It consists essentially of a massive flywheel concealed in a metal casing, and its behaviour on a table, or with various modes of suspension or support, serves to illustrate the curious reversal of the ordinary laws of static equilibrium due to the gyrostatic behaviour of the interior invisible flywheel when rotated rapidly


Gyrostat
A gyrostat is a variant of the gyroscope. The first gyrostat was designed by Lord Kelvin to illustrate the more complicated state of motion of a spinning body when free to wander about on a horizontal plane, like a top spun on the pavement, or a hoop or bicycle on the road. It consists essentially of a massive flywheel concealed in a metal casing, and its behaviour on a table, or with various modes of suspension or support, serves to illustrate the curious reversal of the ordinary laws of static equilibrium due to the gyrostatic behaviour of the interior invisible flywheel when rotated rapidly

2006-11-10 17:05:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Good reference sites...
http://www.howstuffworks.com/gyroscope.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroscope

Gyroscopes do not violate any physical laws.

2006-11-09 17:36:30 · answer #4 · answered by John Z 4 · 0 0

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