What Could I Do For A Calculus Project That Has To Do With Car Racing/driving?
I have to create a video project that covers some of the stuff we’ve learned in my calculus class. My group sort of jokingly decided to do the calculus of drag racing, so we’re sort of stuck now with doing something that has to do with car physics. I guess something like acceleration plots, accel. at certain time, maybe finding g-forces? Any other suggestions? Or, does anyone know how exactly to find g-force felt during accel. without much complicated equipment?
Thank You!
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October 1st, 2009 at 2:00 pm
You may want to try Centripedal Force i.e. Turnings and slopes..
BEST OF LUCK..
But it has some stuff to do with Physics as well.
Also you may want to find the maximum and minumum speeds at turnings. Include Frictional Force and try to minimize it using Calculus.
Take Simple Circuits like circles, oval, parabola etc. Then take their equations and use calculus to find area under the curve etc. etc.
Well thatz all comes to my mind for now!!
October 1st, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Slightly vague answer, so apologies:
You could try a project to determine the equations governing the forces on a car going around a banked curve (or a cyclist in a velodrome). I remember doing a similar thing in an A-level mechanics class, hopefully it fits in with the constraints of your project.