Tire Pressure/Contact Area/Weight
If you inflate a tire to 50 psig. If the contact patch of the tire is 6" x 12" (74 inches square). Is the weight on the tire 3700#? :h
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Not real life numbers. Just a mathematical example to test the hypothesis and start a discussion on a cold winter day. If true, could be a way of figuring weight on each tire, knowing the pressure and contact patch. I know of a high school science teacher that slipped sheets of paper under the front, rear and sides of a tire to enable measuring the tire contact patch to come up with the weight on the tire as stated. Force (weight) = pressure x area.
