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Re: understeer/oversteer definition
In message <Pine.SOL.3.91.990312181309.19601D-100000@apollo.kettering.edu> "Graydon D. Stuckey" writes:
> Coefficient of friction is a constant typically, ...
No, not 'typically'. In an idealised model, yes - the same as those
perfectly elastic balls. But a tyre actually deforms into the road
surface under load, and the coefficient of friction itself changes.
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