22: Three Dimensional Rotations and Gyroscopes
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- 22.3: Why Does a Gyroscope Precess?
- Why does a gyroscope precess? We now understand that the torque is causing the spin angular momentum to change but the motion still seems mysterious. We shall try to understand why the angular momentum changes direction by first examining the role of force and impulse on a single rotating particle and then generalize to a rotating disk.