🔬#MESExperiments 25: Increasing Spin Friction Can Make Gyroscopes ...

In #MESExperiments 25 I continue experimenting with different ways of making a gyroscope rise faster, and this time I have discovered that simply attaching tape to the rotor axis to increase spin friction can dramatically increase the rising rate! And even increase the rising rate by over 5.5X+ but at the expense of greatly cutting short the total balancing, sleep, and spin time. Also of note is that with the tape friction the gyroscope’s outer casing also rotated throughout the experiment, whereas the low friction gyro comparison test had a much smoother but longer rising time. It appears that the rate at which the gyro spin speed lowers due to friction may in fact be the key driver, along with minimizing any precessional friction as in Experiment 1, to enabling gyroscopes to rise upwards as well as governing the rate of rising.

Although increasing spin friction can increase the rate of rising, it is important to keep in mind my earlier Experiment 3 which shows that a gyroscope precesses, rises, and overall exerts "inertial forces" but with no additional loss of spin speed. In other words, there is no direct conversion from the loss of spin speed due to friction to a gyroscope rising; or no direct conversion from the conventional view of "kinetic energy" to "potential energy". Thus, had the gyro rose or not, the overall spin time should be the same for the same friction environment.

#MESExperiments 25 Gyro Rises Faster With Spin Friction.jpeg

Experiment Results and Comparison

The full experiment results are tabulated and graphed below.

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Retrieved: 10 March 2020
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For reference here is a comparison with Experiment 23 which involved weighted rising experiments with the same precession gyroscope.

Unedited Video and Weight Measurements

The original unedited experiments are shown in the links below:

Tape friction added:
No tape friction added:

The gyroscope weighs 150.69 g and the added tape friction is 0.08 g (150.77 g – 150.69 g), which is about 0.05% (0.08 g /150.69 g) of the gyroscope’s weight.

150.69 g Gyroscope.JPG