Originally Posted by
makeinu
I... I hope this picture clarifies this business about about parabolic trajectories and a wheel not really going into a hole as those with "vivid imaginations" might think it would
Are you sure this graph supports your point?
The graph users meters as the unit of measure and shows the trajectory of a traveling body falling off a cliff -- macro-view. So any micro-adjustments that the realities of a pothole might require (e.g. crumbling edge) won't appear in the graph. The graph says that the body falls 30mm for every 12mm it moves forward when traveling at a speed of 5 meters per second (18 kph). Doesn't that indicate that the wheel would not "sail" over the pothole if it's 250mm wide, but fall into it and hit bottom (on a typical pothole) and if the pothole is not very broad, the wheel could smash head on into the other side of the pothole?
The Endo.
Regards
T