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  2. Jack (device) - Wikipedia

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    A jack which can lift a mobile home. A jack is a mechanical lifting device used to apply great forces or lift heavy loads. A mechanical jack employs a screw thread for lifting heavy equipment. A hydraulic jack uses hydraulic power. [1] The most common form is a car jack, floor jack or garage jack, which lifts vehicles so that maintenance can be ...

  3. Roll center - Wikipedia

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    Geometric roll center is solely dictated by the suspension geometry, and can be found using principles of the instant center of rotation.; Force based roll center, according to the US Society of Automotive Engineers, is "The point in the transverse vertical plane through any pair of wheel centers at which lateral forces may be applied to the sprung mass without producing suspension roll".

  4. Car suspension - Wikipedia

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    A component of the tire's force vector points from the contact patch of the tire through instant center. The larger this component is, the less suspension motion will occur. Theoretically, if the resultant of the vertical load on the tire and the lateral force generated by it points directly into the instant center, the suspension links will ...

  5. Video shows Fayetteville man killed after attempting to stop ...

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    Jonathan Adam Lecompte of Fayetteville was killed while attempting to stop a Lumberton carjacking, and a video of the incident has gone viral.

  6. Carjacking - Wikipedia

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    The word is a portmanteau of car and hijacking.The term was coined by reporter Scott Bowles and editor E. J. Mitchell with The Detroit News in 1991. [4] [5] [6] The News first used the term in a report on the murder of Ruth Wahl, a 22-year-old Detroit drugstore cashier who was killed when she would not surrender her Suzuki Sidekick, and in an investigative report examining the rash of what ...

  7. As Car Theft and Carjacking Grow Alarmingly, Canada's ... - AOL

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    Quebec and Ontario are seeing as much as 50 percent more car theft this year than last—and many of the vehicles are winding up as far away as Africa.

  8. Automotive suspension design process - Wikipedia

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    Race Car Vehicle Dynamics - William F. Milliken and Douglas L. Milliken. Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics - Thomas Gillespie. Chassis Design - Principles and Analysis - William F. Milliken and Douglas L. Milliken. Simulation and direct equations: Abramov, S., Mannan, S., & Durieux, O. (2009)'Semi-Active Suspension System Simulation Using SIMULINK'.

  9. Car jack - Wikipedia

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    Car jack may refer to: Jack (device), a device for lifting (jacking up) cars and other heavy objects; Carjacking, the crime of forcedly repossessing an occupied car;