The paper describes the car motion when the contact between its wheels and the road surface is lost. A simulation of such car motion was carried out using a mathematical package “Maple 6” for the two cases:
The car flies off a horizontal surface;
The car runs over a springboard.
The dependencies of the main parameters of motion (velocity Vaand distance S) upon the height H of the horizontal road step or upon the springboard height and its inclination angle (in the second case) a were found. The work presents the graphs of these motion parameters and evaluates the influence of air resistance in both cases.
Lukoševičiene, O., Bogdevičius, M., Nagurnas, S., & Pečeliūnas, R. (2004). Comparative research of a motor car motion in the case of the loss of contact with the road surface. Transport, 19(1), 20-23. https://doi.org/10.3846/16484142.2004.9637947
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