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  2. Gyroscope - Wikipedia

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    Gyro X prototype vehicle created by Alex Tremulis and Thomas Summers in 1967. The car utilized gyroscopic precession to drive on two wheels. An assembly consisting of a flywheel mounted in a gimbal housing under the hood of the vehicle acted as a large gyroscope. The flywheel was rotated by hydraulic pumps creating a gyroscopic effect on the ...

  3. Bicycle and motorcycle dynamics - Wikipedia

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    Gyroscopic effect on front wheel of a bike. Applying a torque (in green) about the lean axis results in a reaction torque (in blue) about the steer axis. The role of the gyroscopic effect in most bike designs is to help steer the front wheel into the direction of a lean.

  4. Hemispherical resonator gyroscope - Wikipedia

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    In application to the HRG shell, Coriolis forces cause a precession of vibration patterns around the axis of rotation. It causes a slow precession of a standing wave around this axis, with an angular rate that differs from input one. This is the wave inertia effect, discovered in 1890 by British scientist George Hartley Bryan (1864–1928). [3]

  5. Gyrocompass - Wikipedia

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    A gyroscope is an essential component of a gyrocompass, but they are different devices; a gyrocompass is built to use the effect of gyroscopic precession, which is a distinctive aspect of the general gyroscopic effect. [2] [3] Gyrocompasses, such as the fibre optic gyrocompass are widely used to provide a heading for navigation on ships. [4]

  6. Vibrating structure gyroscope - Wikipedia

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    Vibrating structure MEMS gyroscope. Inexpensive vibrating structure microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) gyroscopes have become widely available. These are packaged similarly to other integrated circuits and may provide either analogue or digital outputs. In many cases, a single part includes gyroscopic sensors for multiple axes.

  7. Rotordynamics - Wikipedia

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    G is the skew-symmetric gyroscopic matrix: K is the symmetric bearing or seal stiffness matrix; N is the gyroscopic matrix of deflection for inclusion of e.g., centrifugal elements; q(t) is the generalized coordinates of the rotor in inertial coordinates; f(t) is a forcing function, usually including the unbalance.

  8. External ballistics - Wikipedia

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    gyroscopic drift (horizontal and vertical plane gyroscopic effect — often known as spin drift - induced by the barrel's twist direction and twist rate) Coriolis effect drift ( latitude , direction of fire and northern or southern hemisphere data dictate this effect)

  9. Ring laser gyroscope - Wikipedia

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    Ring laser gyroscope. A ring laser gyroscope (RLG) consists of a ring laser having two independent counter-propagating resonant modes over the same path; the difference in phase is used to detect rotation. It operates on the principle of the Sagnac effect which shifts the nulls of the internal standing wave pattern in response to angular rotation.