Doing my A-level physics coursework, and i'm probably just being a bit thick/suffering from tiredness, but why is having a high Young's modulus important for a material that will make the best part of the car?
any help will be greatly appreciated
do you have any grasp of basic vehicle dynamics? OR at least why chassis stiffness and light weight are important?louish49 wrote:Doing my A-level physics coursework, and i'm probably just being a bit thick/suffering from tiredness, but why is having a high Young's modulus important for a material that will make the best part of the car?
any help will be greatly appreciated
Why would you need to?flynfrog wrote:do you have any grasp of basic vehicle dynamics? OR at least why chassis stiffness and light weight are important?louish49 wrote:Doing my A-level physics coursework, and i'm probably just being a bit thick/suffering from tiredness, but why is having a high Young's modulus important for a material that will make the best part of the car?
any help will be greatly appreciated
I am confused as to why the chassis is the best part of the car when the wheel nut is far better.xxChrisxx wrote:Why would you need to?flynfrog wrote:do you have any grasp of basic vehicle dynamics? OR at least why chassis stiffness and light weight are important?louish49 wrote:Doing my A-level physics coursework, and i'm probably just being a bit thick/suffering from tiredness, but why is having a high Young's modulus important for a material that will make the best part of the car?
any help will be greatly appreciated
It's a pure materials question, and that doesn't have to relate to racing cars. Also as asked, it shows a lack of understanding about why you would select a material based on it's properties.
It may just be a poorly worded question.
i cant find anything.. and to the people saying i havent researched, i dont quite know what they're basing that on..Tim.Wright wrote:Mate, there is so much information online regarding this its not funny.
for the last 30 years the rules have made F1 cars flat-bottomed, and forced suspensions to be very stifflouish49 wrote:clearly you're all far too stuck up to help me.. theres nothing online about the actual reason why it needs to be stiff..
by why is it important in f1?!Lycoming wrote:http://lmgtfy.com/?q=youngs+modulus
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=stiffness
Seriously, you only need the first link from those two sources. You don't even have to scroll down. You don't even have to look at any of the other results.
You obviously either haven't searched, or did an exceedingly poor job of it.
cant put it into physics words on this little sleep, noLycoming wrote:from the first result of the second link I posted:
"A high modulus of elasticity is sought when deflection is undesirable"
Now, where might that be true in an F1 car... If you can't figure that out on your own....