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Why does a moving bicycle not fall over? TU Delft casts aside some old theories
Delft University of Technology ^
| April 14, 2011
| M&C
Posted on 04/14/2011 3:46:45 PM PDT by decimon
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posted on
04/14/2011 3:46:49 PM PDT
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decimon
To: neverdem; SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/14/2011 3:48:21 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
You add speed to a bike and can then give it a sideways push without it falling over.
Let's test the theory.
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posted on
04/14/2011 3:50:46 PM PDT
by
edpc
(Tagline under construction: Your American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars at work.)
To: decimon
the department doing the study is literally run by Professor Boneshaker
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posted on
04/14/2011 3:51:10 PM PDT
by
babble-on
To: decimon
I guess they were too lazy to look up Vittore Cossalter’s work.
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posted on
04/14/2011 3:52:44 PM PDT
by
battlecry
To: decimon
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posted on
04/14/2011 3:55:32 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(I am still looking for that box I am supposed to think out of.)
To: babble-on
the department doing the study is literally run by Professor BoneshakerBoneschansker, if that's the same.
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posted on
04/14/2011 3:56:44 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Scientists have been trying to find a conclusive explanation for this remarkable characteristic for over a century.
Government grant heaven. And when they do find an answer, WTF are they going to do with it?
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posted on
04/14/2011 3:59:09 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: ThomasThomas
Yeah, I tried that ramp thing once. Just once.
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posted on
04/14/2011 3:59:56 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: oh8eleven
And when they do find an answer, WTF are they going to do with it? Build TF a better bicycle?
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posted on
04/14/2011 4:01:20 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon; Cagey
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posted on
04/14/2011 4:03:36 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
To: decimon
I think it has something to do with a bumblebee.
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posted on
04/14/2011 4:04:07 PM PDT
by
Krankor
(And he's oh, so good, And he's oh, so fine, And he's oh, so healthy, In his body and his mind)
To: edpc
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posted on
04/14/2011 4:06:35 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(Which has more wrinkles? Helen Thomas' face or Lawrence O'Donnells' panties?)
To: Daffynition
That Mary Poppins thing really doesn’t work.
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posted on
04/14/2011 4:13:08 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: oh8eleven
I’m confused, this is nothing new. Every engineers knows it is because of the inertia of the wheel as tethered to the center which causes rigidity in space. It’s similar to the effect of rolling a ball of playdoh into a stable cylinder which cannot be tilted left or right, but it is done dynamicaly so with a thin wheel bicycle.
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posted on
04/14/2011 4:15:16 PM PDT
by
JudgemAll
(Democrates Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
To: JudgemAll
I had a pretty good idea, without fancy thoughts nor words .. by the time I was 10.
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posted on
04/14/2011 4:23:17 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: ThomasThomas
LOL, I’m never riding a bicycle again after seeing that.
They all seemed to face plant.
To: knarf
Congrats: that is a beautiful picture of a gyroscope demonstration.
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posted on
04/14/2011 4:25:39 PM PDT
by
JudgemAll
(Democrates Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
To: edpc
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posted on
04/14/2011 4:27:53 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
To: knarf
In one of my college physics lectures, the prof had a weighted bicycle
wheel with handles that he pulled the rip cord to spin up, picked it
up, and sat down on a stool, and demonstrated the various forces
and effects.
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