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    Torque required at the wheels to accelerate a vehicle at a certain rate?

    Intuitively, I am inclined to say that you don't need to exert any additional force just because of the presence of static friction at the instant centre, but honestly I'm driving myself up the wall so I could just be way off.
  2. J

    Torque required at the wheels to accelerate a vehicle at a certain rate?

    I'm struggling to understand something basic here. If I have a just a wheel, with mass 10kg, and radius 0.25m, and I specify that the CG is accelerating linearly at 1ms-2, how do I calculate the force needed to do this? Using F = ma gives 10N, but using this value for torque calculation on the...
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