Maxwell's wheel: Flywheel with axle, supported on strings or stand.
1M40.50 • A+30+5
Maxwell's wheel and Yo-Yo. Note: If the Yo-Yo does not hang horizontally, it will precess and snarl the strings.
Related Demos
1M40.40
.22 rifle fires vertically, bullet lifts small wood cylinder. 1M40.10
Bowling ball pendulum swings back to nose. 1M40.20
Loop the loop: Sphere, hoop, disk rolled down a looped track. 1M40.95
The Trebuchet 1M40.40
Ballistic pendulum: Suspended .22 rifle fires into suspended block. 1M40.41
Inelastic collisions: Another ballistic pendulum.
A+30+65
Bike with one foot long trail A+30+70
Hoop thrown forward rolls backwards A+30+0
Minor's apparatus: Movable discs rotated by falling weight. A+30+10
Rotational inertia device: Sliding weights on rotating rod. A+30+15
Rotating chair with dumbbells or weighted bicycle wheel. A+30+20
Maxwell's top, has adjustable center of gravity. A+30+25
Large conical aluminum top. A+30+30
Gyroscopes; various. A+30+35
Sire's Polytrope. A+30+40
Film: "Conservation laws in zero G", sound, 14 min.. A+30+45
Large gyroscope in a suitcase. A+30+50
Rotating Platform for Outreach A+30+60
Spinning Bicycle Wheel Stays Upright. A+30+55
Falling coffee cup is arrested by friction