In a message dated 7/31/00 10:35:04 AM Central Daylight Time,
bloring@tirerack.com writes:
<< The non-drive wheels are being rotated by the ground, at the largest
diameter of the wheel/tire. This is generally a longer lever arm than any
rotating part in the engine, isn't it? So all other considerations aside for
the moment, isn't the non-drive wheel "easier" to rotate than the drive
wheel, because it has a longer lever arm? Am I making any sense at all?
>>
No.
for all practical purposes, and all else being equal, the drive and non-drive
wheel inertia is the same. The numbers we're talking about here are small,
and the diff resulting in direct vs indirect influence is only a fraction of
that, ie way smaller still.
Relatively speaking, I don't why you should worry about splitting sub-atomic
hair particles; I'd worry more about driving the car to it's current
potential...and possibly take a few physics classes to boot.
Sipe
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