Adrian Newby wrote:"When you are at dead-center of your apogee, how many degrees have you rotated from the direction of travel?"
Jersey Tom wrote:I'd agree with that. In this case of a 180 degree turn, dead center of apogee would be about 90 degrees of car rotation. Right between that arrow 6 and 7.
Hopefully you have mis-understood the question or you are sliding sideways.
Maybe so. At the tightest radius point between arrows 6 and 7, which are are calling the apogee of the trajectory, the car will be pointing ~90 degrees relative to its initial velocity vector of arrow 1.
Are you asking how much
yaw as in
sideslip angle the car has at that point? Cannot be determined without tire & vehicle data.
In any event, all points past the apogee are then at > 90 degrees total heading angle change, i.e. still pointing toward
some outside boundary but having a component in the direction of the next straightaway. From that point on, throttle can be increased from neutral) to ease into wherever wide open will be (somewhere later on exit).
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