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• Gyroscope — A gyroscope is a device for measuring or maintaining orientation, based on the principles of angular momentum [ [http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/Gyroscope/ Gyroscope] by Sándor Kabai, The Wolfram Demonstrations Project.] [… …   Wikipedia

• Nutation — See also: Nutation in plants Rotation (green), Precession (blue) and Nutation in obliquity (red) of the Earth Nutation (from Latin: nūtāre, to nod) is a rocking, swaying, or nodding motion in the axis of rotation of a largely axially symmetric… …   Wikipedia

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• Precession — For other uses, see Precession (disambiguation). Precession of a gyroscope Precession is a change in the orientation of the rotation axis of a rotating body. It can be defined as a change in direction of the rotation axis in which the second… …   Wikipedia

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• Earth's rotation — is the rotation of the solid Earth around its own axis. The Earth rotates towards the east, which can be observed by orientation with a magnetic compass at sunrise. As viewed from the star Polaris, the Earth turns counter clockwise. Rotation… …   Wikipedia

• Kreisel [1] — Kreisel. Jeder rotierende Körper und jeder rotierende Teil eines Körpersystems zeigt ein eigentümliches Beharrungsvermögen und reagiert auf äußere Störungen vielfach in überraschender Weise. Bedingung hierfür ist, daß der Körper sich nach allen… …   Lexikon der gesamten Technik