gyrostat
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Then the gyrostat, mounted with its axis vertical on trunnions on a level with the fly-wheel, and resting on a wooden frame carried about by the professor!
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A gyrostat consists of a disk or wheel with a massive rim, which revolves within a case or framework, by which the whole arrangement can be moved about, or supported, without interfering with the wheel.
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Figure 15 shows one form of gyrostat mounted on a horizontal frame, held in the hands of an experimenter.
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If the fly-wheel be not in rotation, the experimenter can carry the arrangement about, and the fly-wheel and case move with it as if the gyrostat were merely216 an ordinary rigid body.
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But now remove the gyrostat from the frame, and set the wheel in rotation.
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