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Old 05-07-04, 05:26 PM   #2 (permalink)
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interesting point you bring up, i've never really thougth that much about it. IF you really wanted to do a hardcore analysis of the differences between the different size wheels, you could find the polar moment of inertia of each wheel, (i think) or the radius of gyration (the radius at which all the mass in the wheel appears to be located at) and figure out exactly how much power the engine puts in to accelerate the wheels (angular and linear acceleration). its been a while since i took engineering dynamics lol
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