Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!bet From: bet@ecsvax.UUCP (Bennett E. Todd III) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Question... [On tilt-meters in off-road vehicles] Message-ID: <291@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 13:33:07 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.291 Posted: Wed Aug 21 13:33:07 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 15:07:48 EDT References: <29@decwrl.UUCP> <10041@ucbvax.ARPA> Reply-To: bet@ecsvax.UUCP (Bennett E. Todd III) Distribution: net Organization: Duke University Computation Center Lines: 15 Another thought about gyroscopic properties of this system -- the gyroscopic behavior of the vehicle as a whole is probably insignificant considering how slowly it is revolving, but the gyroscopic behavior of the *wheels* is probably significant. My first guess would be that the gyroscopic behavior of wheels would tend to stabilize the vehicle against rolling, but I can't seem to visualize the vectors -- intro physics was too long ago. -Bennett -- "Hypocrisy is the vasoline of social intercourse." (Who said that?) Bennett Todd -- Duke Computation Center, Durham, NC 27706-7756; (919) 684-3695 ...{decvax,seismo,philabs,ihnp4,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bet or dbtodd@tucc.BITNET