Hacker News with Generative AI: Mechanics

Tires Don't Work the Way You Think They Do [video] (youtube.com)
The Dying Art of Carb Tuning (carsandhorsepower.com)
Nowadays that every modern car drips with electronic nannies, throttle-by-wire, and enough sensors to make a NASA engineer dizzy, there’s something beautifully savage about a carburetor.
Ask HN: Engineering Statics and Dynamics book recommendation (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, I'm trying to learn how to analyze static structures for a project I'm building! I'd love a good grounded introduction book for engineering statics and dynamics!
Building Gearbox Dynamometer (thriftybuilder.dev)
Toroidal Propeller (wikipedia.org)
A toroidal propeller is a type of propeller that is ring-shaped with each blade forming a closed loop.
Sand Castle Holds Up a Car – Mechanically Stabilized Earth [video] (youtube.com)
The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor (acoup.blog)
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that appears in science fiction, so I want to be clear that I am generally limiting my scope here to rigid non-powered armor.
Energy is frame-dependent, infrastructure of energy is frame-independent (2020) (blogspot.com)
The concept of energy and the elaborate mathematical infrastructure that surrounds it are so fundamental to mechanics that they are generally introduced less than half-way through the first semester of the introductory course in a college classroom (true whether you are doing a force-first or momentum-first introduction).
A 15-minute intro to involute gears (lcamtuf.substack.com)
Involute gears are everywhere: toys, kitchen appliances, cars. But what's so special about their shape?
Understanding Ship Rudders: Types and Functions (medium.com)
Ship rudders serve as a critical component in maritime navigation, playing a fundamental role in steering vessels by manipulating the flow of water past the hull.
The Physics of Colliding Balls (vanhunteradams.com)
Consider the case of one ball of mass $m$ approaching and striking a stationary ball of mass $M$. As we'll see, solving this problem sets us up to solve arbitrary collisions.
Calculating the Mechanical Advantage of Cantilever Brakes [video] (youtube.com)
Failing starter motor – why does whacking it help? (stackexchange.com)
Direct-Drive Bicycle (velotegra.com)
A Different Kind of Disc Brake: 1949 Chrysler (2023) (macsmotorcitygarage.com)
The Basics of How Engines Work (2021) [video] (youtube.com)
Freegen ebike regenerative braking hub mechatronic discussion (youtube.com)
How electronic ignition works and also how to make a spark plug play music (theautopian.com)
What's the difference between a motor and an engine? (2013) (engineering.mit.edu)
Review: The Variational Principles of Mechanics (thepsmiths.com)
Countersteering (wikipedia.org)