Bicycle Wheel Gyro

Materials

As you can see I will be using the Bicycle Wheel, and the ropes in the picture are what I will use to spin the wheel. Another material used in my project is the stool which I will sit on and spin in.

Procedure

I will wrap the string around the place where the string is supposed to go. I will get someone to pull that string while I hold the wheel. The other person will pull the string hard and the wheel will spin fast, and I will sit on the stool and take my feet of the ground. I will turn the wheel sideways then my body will turn the opposite way than the wheel is spinning. After one complete circle I will flip the wheel over so that it is spinning the opposite way than before, and my body will start spinning the other way.

Scientific Principle

My project used Newton’s third law of motion, which says that actions and reactions are equal and opposite. The way I show this law is if I stand on a rotating stool while holding the bicycle wheel. Gravity also plays a role in this project; gravity is a form of vector quantity. Kinetic energy is involved in this project as well. It comes from the gravitational potential energy of the gyroscope itself.

Safety Regulation

Keep loose objects; hair, fingers, clothing etc. away from spinning spokes and axle. Do no drop the Bicycle Wheel Gyro from any height or allow wheel to roll away at high speed. The wheel can hurt if it hits any part of your skin while it is spinning.