Auto accidents, Car accidents, Truck accidents, Motorcycle accidents are all happening around us. We try to drive our vehicles as carefully as possible but it is always the other drivers' that we have to worry about - right?
How else can we cope with the potential of an accident. Being aware of everything around you when you drive and not be distracted by cell phones, dvd players, gps systems etc. Of, course its easy for me to say all of this, but you know that what I'm writing is true.
Get rid of the distraction and the concentratoin is more on driving, and then being able to deal more speedily with the other driver's bad driving.
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Saturday Morning Science - Dr. Don Pettit of the International Space Station Expedition 6 creates gyroscopic platforms from personal CD players in microgravity.
This show how a gyroscope behave when two rotations with perpendicular axis are combined together. the gyroscope axis try to align to the major axis of the bigger rotation so it tilt upwards.
Hier sieht man welche Kräft am Gyroskop herrschen wenn es zwei achsen senkrecht beweget werden. Das kleine Gyroskop versucht seine Achse mit der großen Achse zu vereinigen.
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Lecture Series on Dynamics of Machines by Prof. Amitabha Ghosh
Department of Mechanical Engineering IIT Kanpur
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A new robotic arm is powered by gyroscopes instead of conventional motors to counter the effects of minimal gravity and friction in space.
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Gyroscpic Bellydance troupe from Virginia dance in front of American Dumpster at live performance in Crozet, Virginia. February 2007. Video by Cris Baker