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I imagine they’re placed parallel to the ground, which would have the additional benefit of reducing body roll during turns.
by omginternets 4y ago
I imagine they’re placed parallel to the ground, which would have the additional benefit of reducing body roll during turns.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoHa ha, could cause you to nose down (or up) though. Rotational physics is weird.
- toxik 4y agoNo, if the rotation is coaxial the cross product is near zero. Torque T, ang vel w, ang acc a T = w cross a
- JKCalhoun 4y agoBut as the body attempts to roll going into the turn, the gyroscope will respond longitudinally I believe.
- toxik 4y agoThat’s right, but it wouldn’t be a very large torque, I don’t think. Especially since the roll is resisted by the spring damped suspension and the sway bar. The resulting force would pitch the car up/down depending on turn direction and flywheel direction.
- thfuran 4y agoOr you could slap a brake on it for instant left-hand turns.
- omginternets 4y agoPresumably you’d have two counter-rotating disks.
- thfuran 4y agoSo you can have instant right-hand turns too. Nice.
- omginternets 4y agoWell, no, since you have two equal masses rotating in opposite directions... EDIT: Oh, I see what you're saying. I thought you were talking about the oppsite direction: hit brakes, and car turns. You're instead talking about putting a caliper on each disk, and snapping the car left/right. Oh man, that would be fun ^^