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Homework Statement
I am trying to find the relationship between the rate of precession(ωprecession) and the angular velocity of the wheel(ωspin). Here is a video that explains the problem well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty9QSiVC2g0
Homework Equations
$$L = r X P = Iω$$
$$\tau = r X F$$
The Attempt at a Solution
http://demoweb.physics.ucla.edu/node/29
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/GyroscopicPrecession.html
So, above are the answers to my question. However, they do not do a very good job of explaining what the equations mean. The equation for ωprecession from the first link is:
[itex]ω_{precession} = \stackrel{\tau}{I\omega_{spin}}[/itex]
[itex]ω_{precession} = \stackrel{Mgr}{L}[/itex]
I am trying to understand these and really do not know where to go from here. Is it really as simple as [itex]ω_{precession} = \stackrel{Mgr}{Mr_{2}^2\omega}[/itex]?
Edit: I was doing some more thinking and in the above equation where I replaced Iw with Mr^2w. The r2 on the bottom is the radius of the wheel while r is the radius of the horizontal "rod".
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