Editing Gyrator (section)

== Name ==
Tellegen named the element ''gyrator'' as a blend of ''gyroscope'' and the common device suffix ''-tor'' (as in resistor, capacitor, transistor etc.)  The -''tor'' ending is even more suggestive in Tellegen's native Dutch, where the related element ''transformer'' is called ''transformator''.  The gyrator is related to the [[gyroscope]] by an analogy in its behaviour.<ref>Arthur Garratt, "Milestones in electronics: an interview with professor Bernard Tellegen", ''Wireless World'', vol.&nbsp;85, no.&nbsp;1521, pp.&nbsp;133–140, May 1979.</ref>

The analogy with the gyroscope is due to the relationship between the [[torque]] and [[angular velocity]] of the gyroscope on the two [[axes of rotation]].  A torque on one axis will produce a proportional change in angular velocity on the other axis and conversely.  A [[mechanical–electrical analogies|mechanical–electrical analogy]] of the gyroscope making torque and angular velocity the analogs of voltage and current results in the electrical gyrator.<ref>Forbes T. Brown, ''Engineering System Dynamics'', pp. 56–57, CRC Press, 2006, {{ISBN|0849396484}}.</ref>