While taking a left turn, a bike bends towrads the left while a car bends towards the right. Why does that happen?
1While taking a left turn the person riding the bike has to bend himself on the left side in order to be able to take the left turn.Whereas while taking a left turn a car has to bend towards the right since the steering's wheel on the left side.the central axis on which the car bends depends on the position of the steering wheel, which is not in the case of a bike!
(Made a guess!)
535draw the fbd of the bide when its inclined and not inclined.
forces will be:
1. mg, vertically down. from COM/COG
2. normal, vert. up. from pt. of contact.
3. frictional force, horizontally left.
if the bikes not inclined, there will be an unbalanced clockwise torque and the bike will topple.
so the biker bends thee bike in the direction of the turn.
a car on the other hand, has 4 wheels, and its mass is substantially more than that of the bike.
the car will have a linear velocity before it enters the turn. so it will have a tendency to go straight. it is because of this tendency that the car bands towards the right.
the frictional force will still be there, but because mass is so much angular accln. will be very less. and also i think, the torques will get cancelled.
EVER HEARD OF BODY ROLL IN A CAR?
its because of this and the suspension setup of the car.
