🔬#MESExperiments 23: Added Weight Doesn’t Always Make Gyroscopes R...

In #MESExperiments 23 I expand further upon the previous Experiments 21 and 22 regarding the monumental discovery of gyros rising faster with added weight by showing that this is not necessarily always the case; thus demonstrating the need for nuance in all of life. I demonstrate this by comparing the rising rates of another gyroscope with 4 weight conditions: No weight added, 10%, 16%, and 21% weight added (relative to the weight of the gyroscope). For this specific gyroscope, the lower the weight added the faster the rising. In fact, the 21% weighted gyro didn’t even rise fully, which is in stark contrast to Experiment 21 which had a gyro rise almost 3X faster with 30% added weight! Thus more study and experimentation is required to fine tune our understanding of gyroscopes' (and spinning tops') novel rising ability.

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Weight Measurements and Unedited Videos Reference

The original unedited experiments are shown in the links below:

No weight added:
10% weight added:
16% weight added:
21% weight added:

The weight measurements are shown in the video below:

Retrieved: 12 January 2020
Archive: https://archive.ph/hT4b7

Precision gyroscope: 148.66

Precision gyroscope with stem: 150.67 g

10% weight: 14.45 g

16% weight: 23.78 g

21% weight: 30.82 g

Experiment Results

The full experiment results are tabulated and graphed below from the following downloadable Excel spreadsheet.

https://1drv.ms/x/s!As32ynv0LoaIiIIsIHMxI3rDA7lcYw?e=THnCCe

Retrieved: 11 February 2020
Archive: Not Available

Note that the rising times for all the tests are similar and with decreasing rising rate with increasing added weight. Also note the sleeping time and overall balancing time before fall are higher as the weight decreases.

The angle, measured from the vertical, and the elapsed time are tabulated for each experiment below. Note that 90° is given to represent when the gyros fall down completely.

The results are graphed below. Notice the same shape shown for all the tests but merely compressed as the weight increases. Also interesting is how the rising rate tends to increase as the gyro rises, and as shown in the steep incline in the chart for the weighted experiments.