Answer to Question #199917 in Physics for Simmie

Question #199917

The earth behaves as a huge gyrostat. Comment

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This is true because being a large massive ball (or solid sphere) the Earth bears a high moment of inertia and it is quite hard to change the inclination of the axis of rotation, which makes our planet a huge gyrostat.

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