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From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Hand-drawn diagram illustrating the physics of a gyroscope, with equations for precession and acceleration couples.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 29\1\  Scan294
Date  24th February 1926 guessed
  
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Polar moment I
Diametral moment I'
Spin ω
Precession Ω
and Ω̇ (accn)
Precession couple T = IωΩ
Accn couple Q = I'Ω̇
  
  


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