Brain Damage

Kumpulan artikel dari kolom The Physics of Racing adalah bacaan ringan tapi bagus dari Brian Beckman, Ph.D., untuk sekedar mengisi waktu luang bagi yang tertarik pada balapan serta Fisika dan Matematika (kombinasi yang unik eh? ).

Tolong agar artikel² tersebut disebarkan kepada teman², adik², atau kakak² anda.

Aku harap artikel² tersebut bisa membuat para remaja yang “hobi” balapan liar atau trek²an, menjadi tertarik pada pelajaran Fisika dan Matematika.

Serta sebaliknya, bagi mereka yang “demen” Fisika dan Matematika bisa mulai menerapkan ilmu tersebut di jalanan dan ikut trek²an. Hahaha… (hush!)

Artikel² tersebut bisa diambil dari salah satu mirror di bawah ini:

Brian Beckman’s The Physics of Racing

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 available in both Adobe Acrobat (PDF) form, suitable for printing and HTML suitable for reading online.

1. Weight Transfer (HTML) (PDF)
2. Keeping Your Tyres Stuck to the Ground (HTML) (PDF)
3. Basic Calculations (HTML) (PDF)
4. There Is No Such Thing as Centrifugal Force (HTML) (PDF)
5. Introduction to the Racing Line (HTML) (PDF)
6. Speed and Horsepower (HTML) (PDF)
7. The Traction Budget (HTML) (PDF)
8. Simulating Car Dynamics with a Computer Program (HTML) (PDF)
9. Straights (HTML) (PDF)
10. Grip Angle (HTML) (PDF)
11. Braking (HTML) (PDF)
12. CyberCar, Every Racer’s DWIM Car? (HTML) (PDF)
13. Transients (The missing episode) (HTML) (PDF)
14. Why Smoothness? (HTML) (PDF)
15. Bumps In The Road (HTML) (PDF)
16. RARS, A Simple Racing Simulator (HTML) (PDF)
17. “Slow-in, Fast-out!” or, Advanced Analysis of the Racing Line (HTML) (PDF)
18. “Slow-in, Fast-out!” or, Advanced Analysis of the Racing Line, 2e (HTML) (PDF)
19. Space, Time, and Rubber (HTML) (PDF)
20. Four-Point Statics (HTML) (PDF)
21. The Magic Formula: Longitudinal Version (HTML) (PDF)
22. The Magic Formula: Lateral Version (HTML) (PDF)
23. Trail Braking (HTML) (PDF)
24. Combination Slip (HTML) (PDF)
25. Combination Grip (HTML) (PDF)
26. The Driving Wheel, Chapter I (HTML) (PDF)
27. Four-Wheel Weight Transfer (HTML) (PDF)
28. Hazards of Integration (HTML) (PDF)
29. A Magical Trick (HTML) (PDF)

The “Physics of Racing” is a set of free articles. This means that you are granted a perpetual, transferable, royalty-free license to copy, print, distribute, reformat, host and post the articles in any form, electronic or other. You are asked only that you (1) do not change the content or attribution (that is, the author’s name) (2) do not charge money for copies in any form (3) do not restrict the ability or rights of others to copy these articles freely. (Converted by Peter Ogden at phors.locost7.info)