Do gyroscopes defy gravity?
No. They use the principle of angular momentum to push fight against it though. Basically, when you spin a gyroscopes disk, the ring is spinning in on 2-d plane. Because the ring is spinning , the particles in the ring have a tendency to keep in going the same way are, round and round. Now tipping the gyroscope over would mean that all of those particles in the ring now have to spin a different way in a different direction. The momentum of those particles in the ring spinning in one way is what keeps the gyroscope up. When the ring spins slower, the momentum gets smaller and gravity slowly begins to tip the gyroscope over so that it spins and wobbles, or undergoes precession. When the gyroscope doesn’t spin, it’s particles have no momentum and it falls down. If you want to think about it mathematically, it’s R X P or M(R X V). Where P is momentum that you give the gyroscope and R is it’s radius. The resulting vector is perpendicular to the plane of both, which points straight out of th
