Monday, June 13, 2011

Gyroscopes and Angular Momentum



The counter-intuitive nature of these neat little balancing spinning tops can be quite fascinating and useful.



Come to think of it, nowadays, not only do airplanes use them to keep from rolling, they're installed into our iphones and ipod touches as well, to power all that tilt recognition technology.


But there are also all these cool counter-intuitive inventions that you can make from them (although I don't know how useful this one really is practically speaking).


So, if you never understood how segways balanced on just one wheel, I guess by now you should have kinda figured it out.

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