Ask the question and someone will mention what's known as the gyroscopic effect, which occurs because a spinning wheel wants to stay spinning about its axis - much like a spinning top, or even ...

A child's top is a form of gyroscope. You will find that lateral pressure on the stem of a spinning top will cause the top to slip off to one side rather than tilt. With Maxwell's Top however, because ...

Grab the kids and give this paper gyroscope a try. It’s not an electronic sensor made of paper, but the modern equivalent of a spinning top. The frame remains stationary while the center ...

The gyroscopic system for gyro monorail trains that Brennan developed. (Credit: Primal Space) Everyone who has ever handled a spinning gyroscope found themselves likely mesmerized by the way it ...

A gyroscope is a device consisting of a rapidly spinning wheel or disk mounted so that its axis can turn freely in all directions. As the axis turns the wheel remains stationary. Gyroscopes can be ...

Like a child's top, the toy gyroscope can "stand" on its tip. The reason is that the spinning mass (of the gyroscope and the top) resists a change in motion. (If you don't have firsthand ...