Chris Stann wrote: > > >You don't want to do this, believe me: If, perchance, you lock up the > >rear wheels, the vehicle will spin around. Saw a physics demonstration by Earl Zwicker at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He used a model car on a board and locked up just the rear wheels. When he lifted one end of the board far enough to make the car move, sure enough, it swapped ends. I was a little surprised to see this, and it cured my urge to grab that emergency brake on ice or snow. Larry A. no snow yet in Chicago |
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