RE: 🔬#MESExperiments 16: Gyroscopes Can Even Rise on the Tip of a Thin Needle!
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Can you do the whole experiment on the scale? I'd imagine doing it with a needle tip and scale would be rather difficult. So what about doing it on a scale without the needle tip?
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I've done weight measurements before but need to get a controlled setting where the center of mass rises fast enough to detect weight reading changes.
Note that as the center of mass rises, there should be expected weight reading changes; and in particular weight decreasing indicating inertial propulsion (i.e. precession itself is massless inertial propulsion).
Running some calculations, for this particular gyroscope experiment, the expected weight reading changes would be less than 1/1000 of a gram since the net acceleration during rising is incredibly slow relative to gravity.
But if the gyro were to be forced to precess very fast, then it can indeed launch itself fully airborne hence a weight reading would give a zero reading. I go over a demonstration of this at this particular point in this video:
Interestingly, adding weight to a gyro can help increase the rate of rising so if I can get a better controlled and less chaotic version of the following experiment, then it should produce significant weight reading reduction: