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Anti-Gravity Wheel?

Veritasium · 2 min read

A 19-kilogram flywheel can feel dramatically “lighter” when it spins—so much so that a person can lift it one-handed over their head while the shaft...

Gyroscopic PrecessionFlywheel DynamicsRotational Torque

Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work

Veritasium · 3 min read

Bicycles don’t stay upright or turn the way most people assume: steering isn’t mainly a “direction control,” it’s a balancing control. A modified...

Counter-SteeringBicycle StabilityInverted Pendulum

Gyroscopic Precession

Veritasium · 2 min read

Gyroscopic precession comes down to a simple vector rule: a torque doesn’t just “make things turn,” it changes an object’s angular momentum in the...

Gyroscopic PrecessionTorque and Angular MomentumRight-Hand Rule

How Do Bikes Stay Up?

minutephysics · 2 min read

A riderless bicycle can stay upright because it automatically steers its wheels back under its center of mass when it begins to lean. That...

Bicycle StabilitySteering GeometryGyroscopic Precession