Registered: Nov 2003

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Calculate stopping-distance

hello there..

 

can someone please tell me how i can calculate the stopping distance of a vehicle with the following attributes??

 

1= breakhorse power

2= enginesize

3= weight of vehicle

 

many thnax..

 

Mijan

you can`t, not without taking into account traction/friction (it may behave differently on Ice than on a road), break efficiency also plays a part.

 

the engine size is irrelevent as the BHP takes that into account as does the overall mass.

i see what u mean, but the friction can be ignored as i was told. its just for normal dry coditions

 

so can u give me any sort of formulas to work out the stoping distance from BHP and the mass??

 

thanx

The only thing that I can think of that you could calculate from the horsepower and weight would be a power-to-weight ratio. At the very least you need to know how fast the car is going to start with.