> be skidding at any given moment. The notion of "holding forces at > zero" makes intuitive sense, but underneath that it has very little > physical meaning.
On the contrary. I haven't followed this discussion too closely and I'm no physicist either, but this sounds to me exactly like static vs. gliding friction. > I still think the "rooted spring" model has the most promise, although > it too is complicated by the fact that rolling wheels will "skid" in > only one dimension. Isn't that a bit of oversimplification? My car will skid in at least two dimensions if I try hard enough :-) And a small amount of skidding will always be present. -Gerhard -- | voice: +43 (0)662 642934 *** web: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~gwesp/ | | If emailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't work, please try [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
