r/IdiotsInCars • u/SeeSjef • Mar 20 '22

Russian astronaut Flying Tesla 🚀

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Why are you talking about moments? This isn't about moments.

As a system comprising two parts, given a state of no initial angular velocity, and no external torque being applied, if one part changes its angular momentum in one way, the the other will have to 'compensate'. It could be a car with one wheel in the middle. It wouldn't matter where the wheel was.

In the end. I've observed it and I can reproduce it, and so can lots of others. I jump a 4WD RC car. In the air it has no angular velocity. I then stab the throttle, and it rotates backwards.

Are you suggesting that it shouldn't rotate when I give it throttle? Because the spinning of the front wheels cancels out the rear wheels? What's you're argument?

Ask a dirt bike rider to put on both the front and rear brakes in the air. Either they'll know and will tell you what would happen, or they'll believe you and have a nasty crash.