gyroscopic stability
Rotation resists tipping
Gyroscopic stability is the resistance to tilting that a spinning object exhibits.
A bicycle wheel spinning rapidly resists being tipped over; a bullet fired from a rifled barrel spins to maintain its trajectory.
The faster the rotation, the greater the stability.
The spacecraft used gyroscopic stability to maintain its orientation.
- gimbalPivoted rotational support
- rigid bodyIdealized undeformable object
- gyroscopesSpinning axis-orientation devices
- torqueRotational force measurement
- axis of rotationLine about which rotation occurs
angular momentum · stabilizers · bicycles · spinning tops · spinning wheel · flywheels · inertia · attitude control · equilibrium · Coriolis effect · kinetic energy · planetary motion · drones · conservation laws · satellites · rotational axis · submarines · pulsars
- ballisticsballistics, bullet, bullet drop, cartridge, trajectory
- rotational mechanicsangular momentum, moment of inertia, rotational motion, torque, rotational axis
- gun barrelsbarrel length, bore, breech, caliber, chamber
gyroscopic stabilitytumbling
Acrobatic rolling and flipping
wobble · toppling · nutation · precession · free fall
gyroscopic stabilityinstability
Tendency toward unpredictable change
imbalance · wobbling · tipping · toppling · unsteadiness