How does a gyroscope work?

Okay what was your aahhha  moment? Explain the right hand rule, please. Why is the precession the other way when spinning the other way?

If a ball is going in x axix in space as you said....if i hit i in its opposite direction it wiil absolutely lose it's x axix force

excellent explanation

Fabulous. Thanks

Anyone else notice how not subtle this guy is? It's like, "Woah man, I just asked about gyroscopes". And you're all like, "I explained gyroscopes to you! ...Now you can stop staying up at night and having stupid questions about the universe."

...agenda?

Dear , this is so confusing , Please watch Walter or Veritasium

i still didnt understood the mechanism

This guy reminds me of Christopher Walken. Christopher Walken describing a gyroscope would be the greatest.

More simplistic... When it's lying parallel to earth's gravity, any individual point is not travelling upward or downward (at an angle to earth).
So the spin should have less "resistance" to gravity when it's exactly parallel end doesn't have to travel up or down.
Is that correct?

The rings of Saturn and the planetary plane around the sun may also be where the gravity is equal directly between the 2 poles of the sun?

When the gyro is 90 deg. to gravity, there is also some equal gravity momentum.
Yet I am still a bit vague about explaining this one.

Please reply if this makes sense or not...

This keeps no one up at night trust me

Its 1:32am in Chicago and Ive been up all night trying to understand this phenomenon visually and intuitively. This is an excellent video. Ty

This is an incomplete explanation!

A better explanation can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_2156112265&feature=iv&src_vid=GeyDf4ooPdo&v=ty9QSiVC2g0#t=24s

What book would you recommend to buy to learn about gyroscopes?

lol,got a lil road rash there at the end.He suffers for his craft.

One of the best videos on this subject.

The realization that an acceleration doesn't instantly cause the velocity to align with the force hasn't reached a number of physics teachers. Because an object in uniform circular motion, when released, travels tangentially and not outward, they use this as evidence that there is no centrifugal force.

If you place a gyroscope that spins indefinitely on an angle would it eventually stand upright after a while because gravity is constantly applying acceleration downward?

His demonstration at the 5 minute mark is literally the exact same thing as what would happen if the wheel did not spin. Here is the explanation of how a gyroscope works. He has only turned the wheel horizontal contrary to what the wheels angle was in the beginning of the clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkWiBxWieQU

It's 2:57 am now that I know how a gyroscope works I can sleep at night