Gyroscope Analysis

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About The Project

Introduction

This experiment proves the theoretical anticipations of the precession and the nutation of a gyroscope as its proved that the an external torque force directly affects how the pendulum/ gyroscope motion acts. It also shows that the angular frequency is directly related to the angular frequency of precession and nutation as the gyroscope is in motion and how the Sun and other celestial bodies affect the Earth’s rotation on its axis and why the North pole rotates every 26,000 years and causes "ice ages". Throughout this experiment, many errors arise as the human error take precedent due to reaction time set at +0.5s and the human manipulation of the speed of the torque that is induced upon the gyroscopes.

Its clear to see that the precession and the nutation are affected by external forces such as a torque, this allows the exploration of how the Earth's rotation is affected by the Sun and other celestial objects. Where the distance from the centre of gravity increases, the angular frequency increases from the torque force that is enforced upon the gyroscope. Its also proved that the angular frequency increases so does the angular frequency of nutation, thus shows that as with Earth's radius, the radius also being the distance from the centre of gravity it shows that the Suns causes a torque force upon the Earth and causes it to precess whereas other celestial bodies also affect the Earths rotation by applying their external forces upon it and cause the Earth to undergo nutation thus explaining why the earths north pole rotates every 26,000 years and why "ice ages" occur.

Built With

Python, matplotlib

Other Infomation

LaTeX Report: https://github.com/Mysftz/gyroscope-analysis-report
Python Files: https://github.com/Mysftz/gyroscope-analysis

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Usage

This report was submitted for the degree of a Bachelors of Science in Astronomy, Space Science and Astrophysics at the University of Kent in November 2019.

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