hardingfv32 wrote:Raptor22 wrote:
Any suspension system works on either a constant, rising or falling rate. The load at the wheels working through an ever changing leverage ratio results in disproportionality. To understand the leverage you will need to draw some circles and connect some points then move some bits and understand that suspension systems have "gearing".
Hence the load at the wheels is seldom proportional by a fixed ratio to the load at the wheels.
Your statement has no relevance to my challenge.
'Why is it that the wheel loads are the same whether the mercury system is functional or non-functional? Clearly this mercury system is responding to something other than JUST the wheel loads as required by 10.1.2.'
Are also throwing stuff at the wall because you lack a valid response?
Brian
The car has mass.
The loads at the wheel will always equal that mass, irrespective of the distribution of that load on the wheels. The only variable is aerodynamic downforce which is proportional to drag so we can ignore it for this arguement (for now anyways).
before I move on, did you see what I did there or should I review a text book for you? Never mind,
The inertia valve is not adding mass to the car. In order to do so it would need to be in a nuclear fusion state (which raises a completely new set of problems which I urge you to explore). SO lets assume, just assume that it's not thermo nuclear and is just mercury in a bottle (filled to the brim with a stopper on the end and yes an elastic band holding it in place.
All inertia valve would so is redistribute the load across the 4 wheels. Less weight transfer forward means the rear wheels can participate more aggressively in braking etc.
we can still add in the aerodynamic effects but those are constantly variable and a function of wing cross section, ride height velocity and density of air.
So in short, unless the mercury is manufacturing more mass, the sum of load at the wheels must always equal the load of the car itself. With aerodynamic downforce we can reduce the analogy to simply a heavier car. The principal remains the same.
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