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Originally Posted by eaglesfan10
I was wondering how a gyro worked. As a programmer, I know how to get angles and rates and someone told me that it measures resistance. But how exactly does it do that? How does it know our rate of turn?
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The solid state gyros from Analog Devices (like the one in the KOP) are resonator gyros. There is a section titled "Theory of Operation" in the data sheet that explains what it's measuring to determine the angular velocity.
http://www.analog.com/UploadedFiles/...s/ADXRS300.pdf