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    Normal Forces on Tyres while cornering

    Cheers guys, think I've cracked it now. Now onto the joys of sprung, unsprung weight and lateral load transfer.
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    Normal Forces on Tyres while cornering

    The thing is that centrifugal force doesn't actually exist, it's a 'pseudo-force' that emerges when you build Newton's laws of motion in an accelerating reference frame. You shouldn't need it to explain the turning forces experienced by some objects in circular motion when being watched by an...
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    Normal Forces on Tyres while cornering

    By "inertial reference frame" I meant an observer watching the car with constant velocity. From the reference frame of the car (i.e. considering the car as stationary) you have to introduce pseudo-forces (such as centrifugal forces) to explain why the car isn't moving in that reference frame...
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    Normal Forces on Tyres while cornering

    I was trying to keep it in an inertial reference frame ideally (sorry, should have said). Although I agree with your working. Surely it's possible to do this in an inertial reference frame; since all those equations are literally just Normal ± the torque created by centripetal force. In this...
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    Normal Forces on Tyres while cornering

    I'm trying to derive an expression for the normal forces on a cars tyres traveling around a circular banked track. Initially I was going to assume the centre of gravity was located longitudinally and laterally centre between all four tyres (so front and rear had the same forces on them). Also...
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