[ale] OT: Maglev funding?

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:

> I was specifically referring to when a loaded car takes a curve.
> Certainly a load of 80 tons is going to 'push' the car to the outside of
> the curve?
>

It's not the weight of the car that will cause it to "push" to the
outside of the track on a curve. It's inertia. The car will keep
trying to go in a straight line. But tracks try to curve out from
under the wheels and are stopped by the flange on the wheels.




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