Six cylinder torsion bars with big block

Well this has all been of great benefit to me. I had something better to think about than "Will the novacaine work?" while the dentist was drilling out two holes in my teeth this afternoon. Some more thinking while there also prompted me to go back to the books, and I found I was flat out wrong.

The energy stored in a spring is 1/2*k*x^2, where k is the spring constant, and x is the distance moved or (angle moved in the case of a T-bar). So if you cut the spring rate in half and the motion doubles as a result to hold the same weight, there is a net doubling of stored energy. (It is not intuitive, but it all works that waysince the energy stored is an integral of force over distance. THAT part I understand.)

So my apologies to whitepunkonitro, and my further thanks (in an odd way) to RRR for kicking me in the a** over it!

'splains better why the /6 springs are good for getting the front up in the air when launching.