Gyroscopes and Angular Momentum

What is torque? Is it a scalar or a vector quantity?

What is an accelerometer?

The signal-to-noise ratio of the gyroscope is lower.

What are gimbals?

State and explain the types of a gyroscope.

Give an application of the gyroscope.

The gyroscope is used to measure all types of rotation but fails in identifying movement.

What is the conservation of angular momentum?

Gyroscopes work on the principle of __________.

• conservation of linear momentum

• conservation of angular momentum

• conservation of energy

• none of the above

The rotor of the gyroscope has _______ degrees of rotational freedom.

• two

• three

• four

• one