Sunday, 9 April 2017

toy gyroscope blues

I could never get the hang of gyroscopes.

The spinning part I mean.

There was a U shaped grip at the base of the device which balanced on things. There may have even been a special stand that came with the gyroscope for this purpose. Not sure.

By far the trickiest manoeuvre was getting the spinning devil to balance on taught string.

I can hear the de de de of the Mission Impossible theme tune already!

How did you get on with gyroscopes?

2 comments:

  1. About as well as I did studying the mathematics of angular momentum vectors for them when doing my degree!

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  2. I love gyroscopes, or to put a different spin on things, tops. Uve got loads of them, which fascinated me along with prisms and magnets. Still do!

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