Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 66
rtical, it will oscillate throughits position of equilibrium under the influence of weight.If. however, the ring be set spinning rapidly and then dis-placed, the axis will describe a vertical cone. BH<3-. The conditions necessary for gyroscopic motion in themodeL namely, a rapid rotation about… … 56 SIMPLE TYPES OF 3I0TI0X. may be regarded as possessing a protuberant ring of matterin the region of the equator, which is inclined to the planeof the ecliptic (Fig. 39). Consequently, since the force ofgravitation varies inversely as the square of the distance,it is evident that the attraction…
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