Alternative Go kart field trip project Hints/ new equations:

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2.2 pound = 1 kg Pressure = force/area Centripetal acceleration a= v2/r where v= velocity, r= radius of turn Gs= cars acceleration/ 9.8 Fnet = ma W= m*g f= un draw free body diagrams!! TNEOMs : Vf= Vi + a*t Vf2 = Vi2 + 2*a*d d= Vi*t + *a*t2 (d= displacement) Research: http://mrfizzix.com/autoracing/ http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~outreach/phys420/p420_96/danny/danweb.htm Define these terms as it applies to cars and in terms of one of newtons laws 1. centripetal force 2. understeering 3. oversteering 4. 1-G tires 5. severity index 6. Questions about car safety and physics: 1. Tires must grip the road, dissipate heat, conduct away charge, and get good gas milage. what are the advantages/disadvantages of making a really soft pure rubber tire? 2. The suspension system under your car allows the weight of the car to shift as the car shifts. Explain what happens to your cars weight when you suddenly brake. 3. You drive by an accident and see the front windshield of a red car is smashed after colliding with a blue car. Who hit who and where? (hint: inertia of drivers head) 4. Turning left will cause the weight to transfer to the outer passenger wheels. Explain why this is true in terms of newtons laws

Non-racing experiments 1. Determining mass of a car from tire pressure Given: a car has 4 tires. each has a pressure of 35 pounds/ square inch. Each tire if placed on the ground covers a rectangular patch area measuring 5 inches long by 4 inches wide. Determine the mass in kilograms of the car (show all work!)

2. Calculate the static coefficient of friction of a car tire: A parked car (same one as in last problem) is pushed on the side by 4 strong students. Each student exerts a force of 60 N to make the car start to skid sideways. Calculate the static coefficient of friction for any one of the tires

3. Estimate the rolling coefficient of friction of a car tire The same might 4 students are at it again. They push on the back of the car, and the car starts to roll with a constant velocity of 10 m/s. The students watch, and find the car comes to a stop by itself in 85 meters. What is the rolling (i.e. kinetic) coefficient of friction? (hint: use the tneoms first to get a!)

4. Estimate average velocity: the car completes 15 laps in 7.20 minutes. Each lap is 52 meters long. What was the cars average velocity?

5. Estimating the speed of a car: a car which is 2.0 m long takes .10 seconds to travel past a street pole (assume its width can be neglected) just before entering a turn. What was the cars speed at the moment it passed the pole?

6. Estimating the cars centripetal acceleration The same car as in the above problem now enters a turn and maintains the same velocity found above. The turn is in the shape of a circle of diameter 22 meters. Determine if the car can safely turn (has enough friction) using the kinetic coefficient of friction found also above. Draw a free body diagram!

7. Lets look at a real life turn. They are often banked (like a ramp) so that even under ice conditions the car stays on the road at some minimal speed. Assume the car has a mass of 2000 kg, is traveling at 25 m/s (about 50 mph), the turn has a radius of 40 m, and that there is actually no friction. What must be the angle of the bank turn to keep the car on the road. Hint: The horizontal component of the normal force now pushes the car in toward the center.