Elements of mechanics: for the use of colleges, academies, and high schools (1859)
Peck, William G. (William Guy), 1820-1892 · New York, A. S. Barnes & Burr · leaf 235
called, respectively, theparallelogram and the parallelopipedon of rotations. Application to the Gyroscope. 152. The gyroscope is an instrument used to illustratethe laAVS of rotary motion. It consists essentially of a heavywheel A, mounted uponan axle BO. This axleis attached, by means ofpivots,… … CURVILINEAR AXD ROTARY MOTION. 233 face to receive the pointed summit of a vertical standard G.If a string be wrapped several times around the axle _Z?(7,and then rapidly unwound, so as to impart a rapid motionof rotation to the wheel A, in the direction indicated bythe arrow-head, it is observed…
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