To provide lateral force tires must operate at a slight angle to the direction of travel and this produces a component opposite the direction motion, i.e. drag. So even on a flat turn it takes a little more power to maintain the same speed. Brent On 5/19/2015 1:46 PM, Dan Asimov wrote:
This is just when I'm on a highway with banked turns. Not on a flat road.
——Dan
On May 19, 2015, at 11:52 AM, Dan Asimov <asimov@msri.org> wrote:
I almost always step on the accelerator pedal when rounding a curve, just to maintain the same speed.
——Dan
On May 19, 2015, at 9:28 AM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
My driver's ed teacher taught us "Never accelerate when making a turn." I objected that, in the physics sense, it is impossible make a turn without accelerating. The teacher, who taught gym when he wasn't teaching driver's ed, wasn't amused.
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