Physics of Unicycles

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I’m working on a project for physics, and my topic is unicycles. Does anyone know anything about he topic

thanks

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CalTech did a study on it a while ago… I think… Lemme try and find it.

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http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~marsden/bib/1999/11-ZeBlMa1999/ZeBlMa1999.pdf#search="unicycle%20pasadena"

Does this help?

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yes, what did you want to know?

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My science teacher said that the center of gravity is somewhere around the stomach when you ride :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Idk if that helped (at all)… :smiley:

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Inverted pendulum

Dynamic equilibrium

Either of those two should be enough for a few pages of report.

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Your center of gravity is also around your stomach when you’re asleep or when you jump off a building. In the jumping-off-a-building version, you can really feel it! :slight_smile:

In physics you might want to call that “center of mass.”

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Well once I heard that women are inherently better at te balancing aspect of riding a unicycle given the fact that their center of gravity is lower- at their hips, whereas a mans center of gravity is at his shoulders.

The same way a Hummer is the best climbing production vehicle.

EDIT: excuse me, I should say the original Hummer

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