Physics Question.....
I was about to write pretty much the exact same answer, so I will have to agree with Bushflyr on this. Where the front and rear wheels are is irrelevant to the motion of the FD. The car, whether drifting or gripping around a corner, is still going around a corner. Going around a corner = acceleration (centripetal if speed is constant). The FD want to keep going straight (via inertia/1st Law of Mechanics), but when the car deviates from the straight path, the bra strap you have the FD dangling from will 'pull' it along foin a rir the ride as Bushflyr describes. Well done, sir.
Hmmmmmmmmm......what if the FD were dangling from the rear bumber tow hook......would that FD react in same way as FD dangling from rear view? Would they "sway" in unison or opposite each other? That is a very interesting question.......
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What?!?!
Let's hear it for the experimental verification! And for an explanation:
Assuming a right hand corner the objects (in this case fuzzy dice, hereafter referred to as the FD) instantaneous velocity vector is always tangential to the arc of it's travel. (In this case, the corner) It's centripetal acceleration vector is always radial, pointing to the center of the arc. Because the FD are suspended the accel vector acts through the suspension point 90* to the vel vector and the inertia causes the FD to point to the outside of the curve in line with the radius.
Assuming a right hand corner the objects (in this case fuzzy dice, hereafter referred to as the FD) instantaneous velocity vector is always tangential to the arc of it's travel. (In this case, the corner) It's centripetal acceleration vector is always radial, pointing to the center of the arc. Because the FD are suspended the accel vector acts through the suspension point 90* to the vel vector and the inertia causes the FD to point to the outside of the curve in line with the radius.
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I would agree with BUSHFLYR about everything said. No matter if the FD was on the front bumper, back bumper, or on a chain being dragged from behind, the fact of the matter is the FD will go left on initial entry based on weight transfer and gravity. Now throughout the drift (corner or doughnut) , the FD will SLIGHTLY come back to the right because the FD looses momentum as the speed slows down. I would think in a perfect circular doughnut, the FD will return to its normal state because of "center of gravity". But thats a totally different subject.
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+1 makes no since to me going in the opposite dirrection ( scratches head and still confused )
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