Learning how to skip stones across a lake or pond is a time-honored childhood tradition. The underlying physics of skipping stones could also be a useful model for landing aircraft or spacecraft on ...

GROSCOPY, since it belongs to classical mechanics, tends to be neglected by the modern physicist. We have now to depend on the engineers and applied physicists to maintain the teaching of the subject.

I’m somewhat confused about how, if the gyroscopic effect is so important, this is at all applicable to ships and aircraft that aren’t spinning around the vertical axis. Click to expand... My reading ...