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Is a gyroscope affected by gravity?
Gyroscopes are affected by gravity, as they have mass, but the faster they spin the less gravity has an effect. Ultimately if the spin was fast enough, then the gyroscope would drift into space.
How does a gyroscope work gravity?
If you rotate a spinning gyroscope at its spin axis, the gyroscope would instead try to rotate around an axis at the right angles to the axis direction that your force is applied, making the gyroscope appears to be standing against gravitational pull. The precession effect is also observed in astronomy.
Does a gyroscope defy gravity?
Gyroscopes can be very perplexing objects because they move in peculiar ways and even seem to defy gravity. These special properties make gyroscopes extremely important in everything from your bicycle to the advanced navigation system on the space shuttle.
