In message <[email protected]>, bg @lysator.liu.se writes:
>High performance mechanical rotating gyros are associated with platform >systems. Ring laser gyros and fiber optic gyros are typically strapdown, >which completely dominate modern navigation. Actually, they are usually strapped down to a deliberately moving platform to avoid mode-lock-in at the mirrors, which produces a "sticky" or "discrete steps" effect at slow rates of rotation. But that is a minor detail. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
