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Race Car Driving

emvan2

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Driving cars in the first place requires a huge amount of physics but race car driving includes even more. Because in many cases of car races, the end result happens to be a crash or collision. Collisions between cars demonstrates physics because such collisions can consist of elastic and inelastic collisions. An inelastic collision is when kinetic energy is not conserved, in contrast to an elastic collision where the total kinetic energy after the collision is the same as the total kinetic energy before the collision. Friction is also key in race car driving because when drivers need to make quick turns on the track, friction allows them to make sharp, speedy turns while keeping them from sliding right off the track. Cars also have energy and power and because of this, it allows them to travel at extremely high speeds and maintain such speeds on the track. The greater speed being traveled by the car means that the power also increases and if a collision were to occur, it would be greater due to the amount of energy and speed being obtained by the race car.

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