Gyro swivel chair
- In stock with stable lead times — single units or complete sets
- Size, appearance and interaction can be adapted to the museum’s theme
- For science museums, campus science rooms, community science centers and mobile science museums
- Export packing and overseas on-site installation support
Gyroscope Chair/Gyroscope/Angular Momentum - Science Museum Exhibits Scheme
What It Shows
The exhibition items are a gyroscope consisting of a seat on a turntable, a manually rotatable flywheel, guardrails, and other components. The seat is equipped with foot pedals and brakes, which can accommodate one participant. When participants sit on the seat, they can manipulate the flywheel to change the direction of the gyroscope's rotation axis along the Y-axis. Due to the gyroscope effect, participants sitting on the seat will rotate along the Z-axis; source factory of science museum exhibits - Shanghai Inertia Automation Co., Ltd. If the participant manipulates the flywheel in the opposite direction to change the direction of the gyroscope's rotation axis along the Y-axis, the participant sitting in the seat will rotate in the opposite direction along the Z-axis.
Science Behind It
The law of conservation of angular momentum is one of the universal laws in physics. The universal law of motion of particles and particle systems around a point (or axis) that reflects the fact that the resultant moment of a point (or axis) is always equal to zero when not subjected to external forces or when subjected to external forces. source factory of science museum exhibits - Shanghai Inertia Automation Co., Ltd. For example, a particle moving in a central force field is always subjected to a central force passing through the force center. Since the moment of the central force on the force center is zero, according to the angular momentum theorem, the angular momentum of the particle on the force center is conserved. Therefore, the trajectory of a particle is a planar curve, and the vector of the particle to the center of force sweeps over an equal area in equal time.
The law of conservation of angular momentum is an important law in physics and nature. source factory of science museum exhibits - Shanghai Inertia Automation Co., Ltd. It has been widely used in both physics and engineering. For example, when the skater's arm contracts, the self rotating skater's rotational speed will increase. In the solar system, the rotation of planets around the sun, the rotation of the moon around the earth, and the rotation of objects around a certain axis are all constantly changing in speed and direction, resulting in a constant change in momentum. In the motion of planets around the sun, they are subjected to centripetal force directed towards the sun, and their motion satisfies the conservation of angular momentum.
How to Take Part
① Participants sit on the seats of the turntable;
② Quickly rotate the flywheel, causing the internal mechanical structure to drive the entire turntable to start rotating;
③ Change the direction of rotation of the flywheel and experience the reverse rotation of the turntable to understand the phenomenon of conservation of angular momentum.
form of expression
Mechanical interaction
video demonstration
