Homework Help: Science/Physics

Posted by Elizabeth on Sunday, June 3, 2012 at 7:15pm.

Explain why a rapidly spinning gyroscope, mounted in a frame that allows it to rotate in any direction independently of the frame’s rotation, tends to maintain its axis pointed in the same direction in space.

I just am not getting this!

Science/Physics - bobpursley, Sunday, June 3, 2012 at 8:37pm
Hmmmm. Have you considered what conservation of angular momentum means?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_momentum

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