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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS INTEGRATED LABORATORY
Gyroscopic Motion
PURPOSE: To investigate precession and nutation in a gyroscope. REFERENCES: 1. Analytical Mechanics, 6th ed., G.R. Fowles and G.L. Cassiday, Saunders, 1999. 2. Instruction Manual and Experiment Guide for the PASCO Scientific Model ME-8960, PASCO Scientific, 1997. INTRODUCTION: Precession The "free gyroscope" is an object (usually symmetrical) which is suspended in gimbals or in some other manner such that it is free to rotate about any axis. If such an object is set in rotation about some axis with angular velocity ω, and if no
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