what is flywheel?

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what is flywheel?

anonymous · Answer

A flywheel is nothing but solid wheel. It'll store mechanical or rotational energy and release uniformly. If you know about engine, except power stroke during other strokes there's no uniform energy in crank shaft. If you attach a heavy wheel in it, it'll store the energy during power stroke and continue in the other three strokes. 
Or simply, if you see the toy car which'll run after a initial start up and emitting light, contains a heavy wheel. That also fly wheel. If you remove it and runs, then the car won;t move that much effectively.

anonymous · Answer

ennikum fly-wheelnum kore connection undu arvind!............pazhaya memories!

it is a wheel which can tap energy from its rotation so as to convert it into another form of energy to do work
however it is mostly just a wheel that rotates(can be a disk or one with spokes as in a cycle)

aravindg · Answer

wel why do we call it flywheel??we can call it wheel or disc

anonymous · Answer

it is a special term used to denote that wheels of these kind can actually be made to convert energy from one form to another with help of some connection to the wheel

aravindg · Answer

like that wheel inside the toy car??

anonymous · Answer

yeah u give it a turn then the rotaional energy(given by ur muscles) gets converted to mechanical energy

aravindg · Answer

look at my other qn on radius  of gyration i have asked a qn inside it pls answer