Super Simple – How a Differential Gear Works | Awesome Tutorial

Have you ever wondered how your car is able to get around a corner without the wheels locking up? If you think about it and break it down to the most basic physics concepts involved, the outside wheel has to be traveling faster to keep up as the inner wheel moves along a shorter span of ground.

The problem left to solve is “How can we make the wheels able to spin at different rates of speed?” While the solution to this problem, the differential, seems rather intimidating to come up with an understandable explanation for, the engineering is quite simple.

Check out this interesting demonstration in the video below that takes a crack at explaining how a differential works in the most basic terms possible and tell us what you think of the simplicity of this explanation. It all seems so straight forward now, doesn’t it!?

https://youtu.be/eef7MutOVME