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-----Original Message-----"hangs"
From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-
bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Tarara
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 10:35 AM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Another tire question
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Schnick" <JSchnick@Anselm.Edu>
The axle "hangs" from the top rim via the top spokes. The rim
fromfrom the top sidewall of the tire.
No. The bead hangs from the top sidewall. The rim is supported
below by the bead.
Do you mean the rim/wheel is pushed up from below by the bead,
or that aThe
rim
on the top of the wheel that traps the bead is pushed up by the bead.
latter is, IMO, the same as hanging from the bead which is hangingfrom
the
sidewall.
wheel--
Seems to me that an answer to this is to carefully look at a car
doesthe
anyone have one available or can you get down to a HS auto shop? IS
bead of a mounted tire trapped or not (I'm thinking not). If nottrapped,
then I can't see how the wheel can hang from the bead. If it istrapped,
that is certainly a possibility.
Rick
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