why or how does gyroscopic precession work?
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion because of inertia. As a wheel spins inertia causes the wheel to continue to spin even after the spinning force is removed.
When a wheel is left to hang then the top of the wheel wants to pivot away from the point of contact while the bottom pivots towards the point of contact.
At the top of the wheel the inertia is traveling in one direction, and the tilting force is in 90⁰, a right angle to this. To a certain point the force of gravity is greater than the inertia and the wheel tilts a bit Dependant on the speed of rotation caused by inertia. At a certain point the forces of inertia and the force of gravity are in equality and so the wheel stops dropping, and other factors cone into affect.
The force of gravity is stored until such time as it exceeds the force of inertia. The bottom of the wheel also stores the force of gravity bit in the opposite direction.
At 90⁰ there are now 3 forces at play, the revolutionary momentum, the force of gravity pushing away from the point of contact from the top of the wheel, and the force of gravity pushing toward the contact from the bottom.
It is impossible to store both go away and come here at the same time so the inequality is resolved.
The top of the wheel has been pushing away since the far side, yet the moving toward the point of contact is just starting,bso the push away force is applied minus the small come here force, so the wheel at 90⁰ pushed away, causing gyroscopic progression.
On the far side of the wheel the opposite takes place with the bottom of the wheels come here force greater than the tops go away force (since it is just starting to break the plane of rotation) so it progresses the opposite way.
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