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Economics The tractive force between a car wheel and the surface can be expressed as
Electrical
Environment F = μt W
Fluid Mechanics
Gases and = μt m ag (1)
Compressed Air
HVAC Systems where
Hydraulics and F = traction effort or force acting on the wheel from the surface (N, lbf)
Pneumatics
Insulation μt = traction - or friction - coefficient between the wheel and the surface
Material Properties
Mathematics W = weight or vertical force between wheel and surface (N, lbf))
Mechanics
Miscellaneous m = mass on the wheel (kg, slugs)
Physiology
ag = acceleration of gravity (9.81 m/s2, 32.17405 ft/s2)
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Organizations Surface - μt -
Statics Wet Ice 0.1
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Thermodynamics Dry Clay 0.5 - 0.6
Water Systems Wet rolled Gravel 0.3 - 0.5
Dry rolled Gravel 0.6 - 0.7
Wet Asphalt 0.6
Wet Concrete 0.6
Dry Asphalt 0.9
Dry Concrete 0.9

Example - Traction Force on an Accelerating Car

Unit Converter The maximum traction force available from one of the two rear wheels on a rear wheel driven car - with mass
Temperature 2000 kg equally distributed on all four wheels - on wet asphalt with adhesion coefficient 0.5 - can be calculated as
0.0
Fone_wheel = 0.5 ((2000 kg) (9.81 m/s2) / 4)
oC
oF = 2453 N

The traction force from both rear wheels

Convert! 2
Fboth_wheels = 2 (2452 N)
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Length = 4905 N
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Note! - that during acceleration the force from the engine creates a moment that tries to rotate the vehicle around
the driven wheels. For a rear drive car this is beneficial by increased vertical force and increased traction on the
m
driven wheels. For a front wheel driven car the traction force will be reduced during acceleration.
km
in The maximum acceleration of the car under these conditions can be calculated with Newton's Second Law as
ft
yards
acar = F / m Make Shortcut to Home
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= (4904 N) / (2000 kg)
naut miles
= 2.45 m/s2
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= (2.45 m/s2) / (9.81 m/s2)

Area
1.0 = 0.25 g

where
m2
km2 acar = acceleration of car (m/s2)
in2
ft2 The minimum time to accelerate from 0 km/h to 100 km/h can be calculated as
miles2
dt = dv / acar
acres

Convert! = ((100 km/h) - (0 km/h)) (1000 m/km) (1/3600 h/s) / (2.4 m/s2)

= 11.3 s
Volume
1.0 where

m3 dt = time used (s)

liters dv = change in velocity (m/s)
in3
ft3 Accelerating Car Calculator
us gal This calculator can be used to calculate the maximum acceleration and minimum accelation time for a car on
different surfaces.
Convert!
2000 mass of car (kg)
Weight
1.0
0.5 traction coefficient

2 no. of traction wheels

kgf
N 100 final velocity (km/h)
lbf
calculate!
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