Sunday, August 17, 2014

newtonian mechanics - Purely mechanical description of how gravity causes a gyroscope to precess


I know the vector equation that relates torque to moment of inertia and angular momentum. What I want to know is what physical mechanisms actually occur to keep the gyroscope from falling. Where is the upward force coming from and how, mechanistically, does this get produced?




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classical mechanics - Moment of a force about a given axis (Torque) - Scalar or vectorial?

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