Spacing of wheels?

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Posted by bill whitley at 1/14/2001 9:48 PM EST


Student on team #70, Auto City Bandits, from Powers Catholic High School and Kettering University.


In Reply to: This is what Freshman Statics Class is for...
Posted by Joe Johnson on 1/14/2001 9:21 PM EST:



Some teams don't have the advantage of someone who took statics, much less understands/remembers it. I am a senior in high school, and I understand the torque, force, gear ratios, etc better than anyone else on my team, including the teachers, coaches, mentors, (whatever you want to call them). We have 0 engineers. Just a prospective of some other FIRST teams

Bill


: To answer your question, I need more information, but
: the short answer is yes.

: In a Freshman Statics class, you learn more than you
: will ever want to know about drawing free body diagrams
: which help you noodle out the equations that let you
: determine the answer to your question.

: To really answer your question a number of things have
: to be addressed,

: How high is the CG? Are you going uphill or downhill?
: Are you pulling something? If so, what type of joint
: is the hitch? Knowing that, what is the relationship
: between the CG, the hitch point, and the wheels?

: There are a lot of complicated issues surrounding this
: year's game.

: Joe J.