Flywheels

From your experiments with gyroscopes, you have seen that they can hold a lot of energy. The energy is used to move the models in which the gyroscopes are installed. The energy is stored in the heavy spinning rotor disk inside the gyroscope. This spinning disk is also called a flywheel and it has other applications in addition to gyroscopes.

A flywheel is a heavy disk that is used to store rotational energy. The energy can then be used to drive machines. This kit contains a device with a flywheel that drives a pair of wheels: the flywheel engine. In the following experiments, you can use the flywheel engine to power vehicle models.

A flywheel in a pumping station in the Neatherlands.