Braking Investigation

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Braking Investigation

Conclusion:- From the results I have found that as the kinetic energy goes up the stopping distance goes up. This is because there is more energy in the movement of the bike, which means that it needs more energy to stop the bike.

I also found that as the heavier the rider the velocity became lower and even though the velocity was lower the stopping distance was bigger as there was more force needed by the brakes to stop the rider. If the rider was lighter the velocity went up to a much higher velocity than the heavier rider. But the stopping distance was in some cases lower than the heavier riders. This maybe because even though the rider is lighter and can go faster the brakes have to do less work to make the rider come to a stop.

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From looking at the graphs the line of best fit seems to go through all of them well, showing that there is a steady increase and that there are no drastic changes in stopping distance or kinetic energy used.

The trend shown by my graphs are that as the Kinetic energy goes up the stopping distance goes up. Also if the kinetic energy is under 1.0 the stopping distance generally seems to be 4/6 metres. If the kinetic energy is 1.5 or below the stopping distance is around 6/8 metres. If the kinetic energy is 2.0 or below ...

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