2007-07-22 08:28:45 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
Because the flywheel has the tendency to keep rotating because of its size and motion, it keeps the engine turning over. It follows Newtons 1st law of motion, objects in motion tend to keep moving until a force acts upon them. Rotational inertia.
2007-07-26 03:36:50 · answer #1 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it does store energy in the form of rotational energy from its inertia. Think of a ball filled with lead and a hallow ball with air inside. The ball filled with lead is going to have more mass and will have more rotational inertia to keep it spinning. This is the same principal for a flywheel, and helps large marine diesels idle at very low rpms for trolling and docking.
See the wikipedia link below on Moment of Inertia for more food for thought
2007-07-22 13:06:24 · answer #2 · answered by Chris G 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't store energy it's massive weight spinning keeps the crank shaft turning.
2007-07-22 09:03:02 · answer #3 · answered by 45 auto 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋