Bicycle Wheel Gyro
# 1Q50.20
Parts: bicycle wheel, BW gyro stand
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| Hilton | M-19g | A bicycle wheel gyro with a slightly different setup. |
| The Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations | Disc 07-11 | A small gyro is at the end of a pivoting rod with an adjustable counterweight. |
| Meiners | 13-5.5 | Weigh one end of a bike wheel gyro axle while the gyro is hanging vertically, spinning while supported horizontally, and precessing about the scale. |
| Meiners | 13-5.2 | Drawings for making a very nice gyro out of a 24" bike wheel. |
| The Physics Teacher | TPT 21(5),332 | Spinning bike wheel mounted on an adjustable counterbalanced axle. |
| Freier and Anderson | Mu-2 | A bicycle wheel is mounted on a long axle with adjustable counterbalance. |
| The American Journal of Physics | AJP 31(5),393 | The counterbalanced bicycle wheel gyro with clip-on vector arrows for the angular momentum and torque vectors. |
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