Self-Leveling Pool Table On Cruise Ship

Description:  This pool table on the cruise ship Radiance of the Seas uses gyroscopic leveling to keep the pool table level during rough seas. This design solution could be used to start a unit on waves. After learning more about the amplitude, wavelength and energy of waves students could attempt to build a similar solution of their own.

Web Resources: Gyroscope used for self-leveling cruise ship pool table - Geek.com,  Gyroscope - Wikipedia

This is a video taken by a friend, of the Gyroscopic self leveling pool table on the cruise ship "Radiance of the Seas", while travelling back from New Zealand in rough weather in December 2011 http://www.royalcaribbean.com.au/findacruise/ships/class/ship/home.do?shipClassCode=RD&shipCode=RD&br=R As the ship moves the pool table adjusts so that the billiard balls don't move at all, even in rough weather.