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gyroscope
Definição1
A rapidly spinning wheel with its weight concentrated on its rim and having a freedom in one or more planes at right angles to the plane of rotation. Gyroscopes have two basic characteristics of rigidity in space and precession. Because of rigidity in space, a gyroscope does not tilt its axis of rotation as the earth rotates. Precession causes the gyroscope to react to an externally applied force at a point 90º away from the point of application of force, in the direction of the rotation.
Fonte1
KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
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