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- Report
After the racing was over, we strapped gopros on and captured some HD footage of the race track. I was surprised by how much stability my quad gained when the gopro was attached! Seems there is a tradeoff between acceleration and stability. I'm theorizing the stability with gopro comes from two things:
1) extra mass = more inertia...f=ma and p=mv...all those good things from Physics 7A
2) when there's more mass, I have to apply higher throttle to maintain altitude. Higher throttle generates more RPM and propeller angular momentum. Like a bicycle wheel spinning faster, the propellers become make the frame more stable at higher RPM. Newton's second law for angular momentum states, sum of external torques on the quad = change in angular momentum with respect to time. When the angular momentum is increased due to higher propeller RPM, the external forces of wind or imbalance have a smaller effect on changing angular momentum since the momentum is larger at higher RPM. Need to review the angular momentum equations, but I believe this is the correct theory.
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