Assertion: gyroscope's wheel | /r/CapableOf | maintain its original orientation
Facets:
value: in space
type: LOCATION
value: normally
type: DEGREE
value: to a fixed point on earth
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: regardless of earth’s rotation
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: During the 1850s Foucault conducted an experiment using such a rotor and demonstrated that the spinning wheel maintained its original orientation in space regardless of Earth’s rotation.
text: When it is spun up to speed with its axis pointing in some direction, due to the law of conservation of angular momentum, such a wheel will normally maintain its original orientation to a fixed point in outer space (not to a fixed point on Earth).
text: Because of the law of conservation of angular momentum, such a wheel will maintain its original orientation.
text: Because of the law of conservation of angular momentum, such a wheel will maintain its original orientation.
text: During the 1850s he conducted an experiment using such a rotor and demonstrated that the spinning wheel maintained its original orientation in space regardless of the Earth's rotation