Glossary · term
Flywheel
Machines
- Aliases
- flywheels
- Domain
- Machines
Definition
A heavy wheel on a shaft that stores rotational energy and smooths a jerky drive: a piston engine fires in pulses and the flywheel carries it between them. Mass at the rim, where the moment of inertia counts most.
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