Barry,
At 08:57 11/03/98 -0800, you wrote:
>... What happens is that when you apply that brake,
>the braking action is applied to the wheel with the least traction -
>through the diff. In this case one wheel locks (because of the
>differentiating action), and you enter into a dramatic spin.
I can't see why this should happen. You're applying braking torque at the
input to the diff, and you say this creates a torque imbalance within the
diff ...?
It must be conservation of angular momentum that's responsible, but I'd have
to think hard about it. Anybody want to explain it?
Allen Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
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