[ODE] Odd Hinge-2 Behaviour?

Thomas Harte thomasharte at lycos.co.uk
Wed Dec 18 07:08:01 2002


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>> Similarly, I have discovered that if I allow my car to fall freely,<BR>><BR>>I.e. there's no gravity (or "equivalently" no floor), it's floating in space?<BR><BR>Well, in this case just if there is no floor that the car is in contact with, e.g. if it drives off <BR>the top of a building then it will be falling freely for a short period.<BR><BR>>> then whereas you'd expect acceleration to cause the wheels to spin<BR>>> but not really achieve anything, both the wheels and chassis spin.<BR>>><BR>><BR>>That's exactly what you'd expect: the wheels would spin one way and the body<BR>>would spin the other.  Or are you seeing them spin the same way?<BR><BR>So you are implying that if I drive a car off a ramp at a very high speed, then ram the <BR>handbrake on while still in the air, the front end of my car will suddenly shoot upward? <BR>Or, alternatively that if I drive slowly off a cliff and then accelerate very rapidly, the <BR>front end will dip? These are the sorts of things 
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