Week 9 Modesto Junior College（第九个星期莫德斯托专科学校）.pdf

Week 9 3. When you turn while running, you must lean in the direction of a turn or risk falling over. If you lean left as you turn left, why don’t you fall over to the left? E.3 The leftward frictional force on your feet keeps you balanced. 4. If a motorcycle accelerates too rapidly, its front wheel will rise up off the pavement. During this stunt the pavement is exerting a forward frictional force on the rear wheel. How does that frictional force cause the front wheel to rise? E.4 The huge forward force on the bottom of the rear wheel produces a torque on the motorcycle and rider about their combined center of mass. If this torque is large enough, it overcomes the motorcycles natural forward-back stability and the motorcycle rotates so that its front wheel leaves the pavement. 5. As a skateboard rider performs stunts on the inside of a U-shaped surface, he often leans inward toward the middle of the U. Why does leaning keep him from falling over? E.5 As long as the inward force from the U-shaped surface points toward the skaterboard’s center of mass, the skaterboard doesn’t begin rotating. 6. Most racing cars are built very low to the ground. While this design reduces air resistance, it also gives the cars better dynamic stability on turns. Why are these low cars more stable than taller cars with similar wheel spacings? E.6 The torques that friction exerts on a car when it pushes on the cars wheels can cause the car to tip over. But if the cars center of mass is very low, the lever arm of the frictional forces is small and the torques that friction produces about the cars center of mass are small. With only small torques acting on it, the car stays upright because of its natural static stability