posted by [identity profile] bkleber.livejournal.com at 10:17pm on 2005-02-24
I suspect that it has to do with the suspension reacting to the curve. Is there a specific kind of curve that it reacts to like this? cornering? banked entrance ramp? A banked ramp will have more forces than just the one you're talking about. Or rather, becasue it is banked, the centripital force has more than one componant in your local coordinate system. There's the lateral force, which you think about all the time, and then the pseudo-gravitational force, which essentially means that yoru car is heavier than it woukld be otherwise. This combination means that the normal sqooshing of the suspension isn't going to act the way you're used to it doing the rest of the time.

so. More specific situations?

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