A Brake Thought expiriment
#1
A Brake Thought Experiment
I wonder.... What if the brake rotor turned the opposite direction of the wheel it was stopping? Forgret about the how and weather or not practical or impractical, What would the physical effect be on the car? What about it Miataturbo intellect collective?
Last edited by fivehundredton; 10-19-2017 at 06:41 AM. Reason: spelling
#11
Gyroscopic forces only act at a right angle to the vectors for angular momentum (sticking straight out from the axle towards the left side of the car, when moving forwards) and to the vector for the torque applied to the wheel. When traveling in a straight line, this is zero (no gyroscopic force). When making a left turn it would tend to push the wheel down, but a right turn would lift the wheel. However, these are central forces and so might change the spring compression a tiny bit, but should not dramatically affect the handling since contact force with the road would be conserved, I believe. I'll think about this some more. Still, a rotating rotor would not have nearly as much rotational inertia as the wheel, so while diminishing these (possibly irrelevant) dynamic effects somewhat, they would have even more limited effects on the car overall.
#12
I appreciate your input. Not gyro effect I'm looking at. Here's an example: While watching my son go over jumps on his dirt bike, I noticed that the bike would pitch nose down in the air sharply sometimes. When I asked him how in the hell he was doing that, he said he was hitting the back brake. Torque. When you clamp a disc, whatever your clamping it with, wants to go around too.
(Thanks for throwing some of my cats back over the fence, ya'll)
(Thanks for throwing some of my cats back over the fence, ya'll)