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vehicle idea for a decrease in friction
Others have provided excellent answers, but I will give a more general approach. Air resistance is way way way more important than rolling resistance, and your proposal increases the former to help ...
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vehicle idea for a decrease in friction
You didn't specify what the vehicle would be used for or the desired traveling speed for the vehicle.
Some 30 years ago I saw a mobile drilling rig working and moving on a salt lake. The surface of ...
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vehicle idea for a decrease in friction
The ratio of lift to drag for an aircraft is somewhere between 4 and 80. That means to generate 1000 N of lift we'd create 12-250N of drag. Cars aren't going to make very good wings, in F1 for example ...
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vehicle idea for a decrease in friction
... using lift at the back for support while keeping the front two wheels contacting to the ground thereby decreasing the friction contacting the ground.
Figure 1. Image source: Mech4study.
You may ...
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vehicle idea for a decrease in friction
You usually want more grip at higher speeds because you don't want to start skidding in a turn. Your idea sounds like an oversteering nightmare.
There is a reason high speed racing tends to have ...
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How to calculate the aircraft ground run distance?
A similar question was answered on the aviation stack about two years ago regarding K.9793 and P.7280, prototype Spitfire aircraft. See the public service announcement in the answer, a word from our ...
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