The
how's, why's and wherefore's of punting a car around a track... the entire Physics
of Racing Series (PhoRS) by Brian Beckman, PhD, reproduced here with
permission. The articles are also being progressively made available for
download in Adobe® Acrobat® (PDF) form, suitable for printing.
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Introduction to the PhoRS article series |
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| Part 1 | Weight Transfer | 
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| Part 2 | Keeping Your Tyres Stuck to the Ground |
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| Part 3 | Basic Calculations |
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| Part 4 | There Is No Such Thing as Centrifugal Force |
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| Part 5 | Introduction to the Racing Line |
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| Part 6 | Speed and Horsepower |
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| Part 7 | The Traction Budget |
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| Part 8 | Simulating Car Dynamics with a Computer Program |
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| Part 9 | Straights |
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| Part 10 | Grip Angle |
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| Part 11 | Braking |
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| Part 12 | CyberCar, Every Racer's DWIM Car? |
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| Part 13 | Transients (The missing episode) |
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| Part 14 | Why Smoothness? |
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| Part 15 | Bumps In The Road |
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| Part 16 | RARS, A Simple Racing Simulator |
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| Part 17 | "Slow-in, Fast-out!" or, Advanced Analysis of the Racing Line |
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| Part 18 | "Slow-in, Fast-out!" or, Advanced Analysis of the Racing Line, Continued |
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| Part 19 | Space, Time, and Rubber |
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| Part 20 | Four-Point Statics |
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| Part 21 | The Magic Formula: Longitudinal Version |
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| Part 22 | The Magic Formula: Lateral Version |
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| Part 23 | Trail Braking |
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| Part 24 | Combination Slip |
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| Part 25 | Combination Grip |
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| Part 26 | The Driving Wheel, Chapter I |
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| Part 27 | Four-Wheel Weight Transfer |
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| Part 28 | Hazards of Integration |
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| Part 29 | A Magical Trick |
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