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Of Squirrels, Unicorns, Electricity Storage & Flywheels, Part Two

17th December 2024 Going Postal 0

As per Wiki : A flywheel is a mechanical device that uses the conservation of angular momentum  to store rotational energy, a form of kinetic energy proportional to the product of its moment of inertia and the [more…]

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Three Gyroscopes – Part 4

16th February 2022 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction As a child I loved playing about with magnets – I still do. They can move heavy objects – such as lifting cars at a scrap yard. They can also move light (-weight!) objects [more…]

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Three Gyroscopes – Part 3

3rd February 2022 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction In part one we looked at how a gyroscope seems to defy gravity. This is accomplished by angular momentum. We’ll come back to that later 🙂 In part two we looked at how a [more…]

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Three Gyroscopes – Part 2

20th December 2021 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction The “flat earth” people like to disseminate their woeful ideas. Therefore, let us spend some little time to think about the earth that we all live upon. In particular its spherical (well, almost) shape [more…]

Physics

Three Gyroscopes – Part 1

13th December 2021 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction I woke up one morning thinking, “I’ll write a few articles for GP about the gyroscope. How hard can that be?”. Hmm… Well it turns out that that was a really stupid idea. Are [more…]

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