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  2. Weight transfer - Wikipedia

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    The major forces that accelerate a vehicle occur at the tires' contact patches.Since these forces are not directed through the vehicle's CoM, one or more moments are generated whose forces are the tires' traction forces at pavement level, the other one (equal but opposed) is the mass inertia located at the CoM and the moment arm is the distance from pavement surface to CoM.

  3. Weight distribution - Wikipedia

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    Typically, it is written in the form x/y, where x is the percentage of weight in the front, and y is the percentage in the back. In a vehicle which relies on gravity in some way, weight distribution directly affects a variety of vehicle characteristics, including handling, acceleration, traction, and component life. For this reason weight ...

  4. Moving load - Wikipedia

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    an inertial force (mass and a massless force). [citation needed] Numerous historical reviews of the moving load problem exist. [1] [2] Several publications deal with similar problems. [3] The fundamental monograph is devoted to massless loads. [4] Inertial load in numerical models is described in [5]

  5. Vehicle dynamics - Wikipedia

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    The tire model must produce realistic shear forces during braking, acceleration, cornering, and combinations, on a range of surface conditions. Many models are in use. Most are semi-empirical, such as the Pacejka Magic Formula model. Racing car games or simulators are also a form of vehicle dynamics simulation. In early versions many ...

  6. Automobile handling - Wikipedia

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    Height of the centre of mass relative to the wheelbase determines load transfer between front and rear. The car's momentum acts at its centre of mass to tilt the car forward or backward, respectively during braking and acceleration. Since it is only the downward force that changes and not the location of the centre of mass, the effect on over ...

  7. Newton's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] Moreover, words which are synonymous in everyday speech are not so in physics: force is not the same as power or pressure, for example, and mass has a different meaning than weight. [12] [13]: 150 The physics concept of force makes quantitative the everyday idea of a push or a pull. Forces in Newtonian mechanics are often due to ...

  8. Fictitious force - Wikipedia

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    Assuming Newton's second law in the form F = ma, fictitious forces are always proportional to the mass m. The fictitious force that has been called an inertial force [7] [8] [9] is also referred to as a d'Alembert force, [10] [11] or sometimes as a pseudo force. [12] D'Alembert's principle is just another way of formulating Newton's second law ...

  9. Equations of motion - Wikipedia

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    There are two main descriptions of motion: dynamics and kinematics.Dynamics is general, since the momenta, forces and energy of the particles are taken into account. In this instance, sometimes the term dynamics refers to the differential equations that the system satisfies (e.g., Newton's second law or Euler–Lagrange equations), and sometimes to the solutions to those equations.