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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I’mChristopher Intagliata.
If you’ve ever pulled a rolling suitcase through theairport, chances are you’ve also been annoyed bythis common occurrence: the suitcase startsrocking back and forth on each wheel and finallytips over.
“It’s a very classic phenomenon in physics.” Sylvain Courrech du Pont, a physicist at theUniversity of Paris Diderot. “So if you perturb the system it goes very easily unstable. This isshared by many, many phenomena in nature.”
Courrech du Pont and his students wanted to get to the bottom of why luggage tips. So theybuilt what looks like the skeleton of a wheeled suitcase, and then filmed it rolling on atreadmill. Then they modeled what they saw mathematically.
And here’s what they found. Under normal rolling conditions, the forward motion of thesuitcase is perpendicular to the wheels’ axis of rotation. All good. But when you hit a bumpor jerk the handle, one wheel lifts up. All of a sudden the pulling motion is no longerperpendicular to the still–rolling wheel’s rotation, and the wheel corrects that by driftingtowards the center. But by that time the other wheel’s coming down, same thing happens, andnow the suitcase is really rocking.
“And the first reaction you will have maybe is to slow down. But actually if you slow downyou’ll experience very big rocking oscillations.” The way back to a smooth ride, he says, is tokeep up your speed, or move even faster, once rocking begins. The study is in the Proceedingsof the Royal Society A.
There are other solutions to suitcase instability—like doing a better packing job. “If you putheavy stuff close to the axis of symmetry, or close to the wheel axis, then it’s stable, too.”
And Courrech du Pont has one more piece of advice to avoid rocking in the first place: “If yougo slow enough it will always be stable.” Keep that in mind, next time you’re running to yourgate.
Thanks for listening for Scientific American — 60-Second Science Science. I’m ChristopherIntagliata.
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