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Asked by: tahir
Subject: gyroscopes
Question: WHAT IS A PRECISSION GYROSCOPE? IS THERE ANY PHYSICAL THING EXISTING WITH THE NAME OF PRECISSION GYROSCOPE? PLZ. TELL ME HOW IT WORKS AND WHAT IT'S OPERATING PRINCIPLE? I HAVE TO CONSIDER IT FROM NAVAL PLATFORM POINT OF VIEW.


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Date: 19 May 2004
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Answer: webmaster@gyroscopes.org - 06/06/2004 17:34:07
 Precession is a force that can be observed with a gyroscope. There is no such thing as a precession gyroscope. All gyroscopes have precessional forces.

Very simply, if a rotational force is applied in the correct way the gyroscope will react to this by rotating in another direction.

see
http://www.gyroscopes.org/behaviour.asp

and

http://www.gyroscopes.org/movies.asp

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