Question

Applying Angular Momentum Concepts Waves which strike sea-going ships make them tip back and forth, causing sea-sickness. Some passenger ships have a perpendicular to the ship's deck. Explain, using the terms and concepts of rotational physics, how the wheel helps reduce the passengers' queasiness. massive spinning wheel mounted in them with its axis of rotation

Answer 1

This spinning wheel acts as Gyroscope. By conservation of angular momentum when waves try to tilt ship spinning wheel opposes tilting of ship(. because if ship tilts angular momentum of wheel will change ) Hence ship does not tip a lot.