Function and Applications

Demonstration and practical set for working up the gyroscope laws. 

Benefits

The following relationships can be produced:

• Precession (influence of torque and rotational frequency)
• Nutation (influence of the speed of the disc on the nutational frequency)
• Measurement of the moment of inertia of the gyroscope disc from the angular acceleration for a known torque
• Investigation of the relationship between the duration of a precession rotation and the rotational frequency of the gyroscope disc
• Investigation of the relationship between the precession frequency and the turning moment exerted on the gyroscope axis for constant rotational frequency of the disc
• Determination of the relationship between the rotational and nutational frequency of the gyroscope disc
• Gyroscope disc with double ball bearings, balanced and freely movable via 3 axes, which is wound up by hand with the aid of a thread
• Mounted on a metal stand
• Sliding counterweight for calibrating the gyro disc

Equipment and technical data

• Disc diameter: 245 mm
• Disc thickness: 25 mm
• Disc weight: approx. 1317 g
• Counterweight: approx. 925 g