Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05951
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 22:29:27 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: hUFO goes online!
Darrell Johnson wrote:
> well, to push the race track comparison:
>
> make the race track circular.. like a doughnut.. (draw this on paper
> it makes more sense that way) now draw a line that first hugs the
> inside lane, then swings out to the outside lane over one lap. Now think
> of the forces involved. The car will pull a lot harder away from the
> center of the circle when it is in the outside lane, and won't pull
> nearly as much when it is in the inside lane. That's where the
> directional force come from. I'm sure it's a bit more complicated than
> that, but it's the general principal.
But this is backwards! The G force goes up on the inner lane, not the
the outside lane, assuming a constant speed.
The same is true for an airplane, the tighter the turn, the higher the G
force.
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