Two ideas, one kinematic and one dynamic, provide new insight into some of the amazing aspects of gyroscopic motion. The dynamic idea is to resolve the motion of the gyroscope in every short time interval as a superposition of its torque‐free motion and its torque‐induced motion. The kinematic idea is to directly track the motion of the symmetry axis.
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1994
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