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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed
The gyroscope will NEVER precess.

(Assuming your post isn't sarcasm)Sure it will.

That's one of the reasons Inertial Navigation Systems "drift".

Ever heard of a Foucault Pendulum?

86 posted on 08/25/2016 12:51:52 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

A inertial guidance system drifts only because its frame of reference changes.

A gyroscope does not precess unless the frame of reference within which it operates moves.

Forget the Foucault Pendulum.

Buy a gyroscope and do the experiment for yourself.

https://www.ingeniousingenuity.com/Super-Precision-Gyroscope_p_47.html?gclid=CIOAqumv3c4CFUE7gQod7KQINg

Mount the gyroscope in any orientation on its tripod support. It will still have two, mutually perpendicular axes of free rotation.

Spin up the gyroscope on a stationary table. Observe it for fifteen minutes. It will not precess.


93 posted on 08/25/2016 1:12:06 PM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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