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Open Stax: Gyroscopic Effects: Vector Aspects of Angular Momentum

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From a chapter on Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter explains how to use the right-hand rule to determine direction for angular velocity, momentum, and torque. Also discusses the gyroscopic effect and how the Earth behaves like a gyroscope. Includes a few questions and a problem.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)