Hi Gang, I guess Dale must be on vacation this week, 'cause this is definitely off topic. Take it to the i-bob list or to the Bicycle Science list, because this is no longer the place for it. I'd be happy to scan the relevant pages of my college physics text to anyone who cares and can do the simple math. Angular acceleration is not that tough to understand.
Steve Kurt
quoting the digest: Message: 7 Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 18:13:22 -0500 (CDT) From: John Joseph Taglia <jtagli1@uic.edu> To: Monkeyman <monkey37@bluemarble.net> Cc: moos@penn.com, RMAugust@aol.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: I'm putting up then shutting up. . .(Re: [CR]Re: Reducing the "Polar Moment of Inertia")
Actually, Brandaon, this is pretty much what I understood to true. Given the simple equation FxM=A, of course a lighter wheel is going to accelerate faster. But I still contend that wheel weight is n't materially different than any other bike weight, that bike weight is pretty much immaterial in the weight equation, and that all weight is dwarfed other factors--first and foremost being aerodynamic fprces.
Regards,
John Taglia
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