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Old 17th Jul 2009, 17:15
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As fitter2 says, you don't really tell us what the problem is. But, precession/gyroscope maths is generally labelled under "dynamics" in engineering teaching. This is reckoned to be a pretty good book on the subject I believe (all the ones on my bookshelf - which are in an office about 600 miles away at the moment, are out of print, but if you can find a copy the one by Hibbeler, same title, was pretty good.)

From memory, it's a case of defining rotational inertia as a vector, then if you multiply that vector by the input rotation vector, you get a resultant output torque vector? Or something like that.

If you are trying to balance two gyroscopes, presumably it's a case of making the right hand side of the two equations the same, then playing around with the left hand terms to keep that true.

I always hated vector algebra! Give me scalars and angles every time!

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