Foucault's Gyroscope
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“Foucault’s Gyroscope. GYROSCOPE. An instrument consisting of a fly-wheel, the axis of which can turn freely in any direction, designed to illustrate the dynamics of rotating bodies.” -Whitney, 1911
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gyroscope, measurement, physics, foucault, rotation, Revolving, fly-wheel, angular momentum, orientationGalleries
General PhysicsSource
William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)
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