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From: throopw@rtp47.UUCP (Wayne Throop)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Question... [On tilt-meters in off-road vehicles]
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 13:20:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 13:20:51 1985
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> Go look at (e.g. Halliday&Resnick) pictures of
> a top precessing, and you'll see that a car will behave more stably turning
> to the left than to the right ( unless I got those switched again??).
>         Darwin's Dad (Carl Witthoft)
> ...!{decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!aoa!carl

OK.  I went and looked at my Haliday&Resnick picture of a top
precessing.  I'm still not enlightened.  In what way will this effect
cause a car to be more stable turning left than right?
-- 
Wayne Throop at Data General, RTP, NC
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