Instability in automobile braking.

Author(s)
Unruh, W.G.
Abstract

It is shown that the simplest theory for the behaviour of automobile tyres under braking leads to an instability which causes the car to spin around in cars whose rear wheels lock before the front. Why a car with rear wheels locked and front wheels free is unstable can be simply presented and readily grasped especially with a demonstration model.

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B 26299 fo /91.1 /
Source

From: American Journal of Physics, 52 (1984-10) No. 10, p. 903-909, 2 fig., 4 graph., 8 ref.

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