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Friday 18 October 2013

INCREDIBLE PHYSICS: THE BUGATTI VEYRON

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The Spoiler of the Bugatti Veyron bends to this position during braking to resist air flow.
The Bugatti Veyron is the world fastest production car (hitting a top speed of 254mph - the speed of a jet at take off), and funny enough, it has the ability to STOP COMPLETELY from this speed in less than 10s, woww!
That's faster than any other car you can think of.

Now how is this possible? Bugatti Veyron, has a combination of two different braking systems:
1.The normal wheel friction braking system you see in normal cars, and
2.The air resistance wing braking system(see the picture)

The air resistance wing braking system is the work of aerodynamics. The car is designed with a wing in the back which acts like the spoiler[ read more on spoilers here] in normal cars and opens automatically in the position shown in the picture to resist the flow of air while braking. This air resistance, generates a high retardation for the car which is about 70% of braking in normal sports cars.

This is an excellent idea, and it wont be possible without physics!
I LOVE PHYSICS.

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