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    How To Calculate Brake Torque

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    Torque is a force that causes an object to change its rotational speed. Brakes create torque to stop a moving car by applying frictional force to the wheels through brake pads, which impedes the axle's rotation and stops the car's forward motion. To calculate brake torque: draw a free-body diagram showing forces on the vehicle; use Newton's second law to determine the horizontal braking force from the vehicle's mass and deceleration rate; then calculate torque as the braking force multiplied by the wheel radius.

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    How To Calculate Brake Torque

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    Torque is a force that causes an object to change its rotational speed. Brakes create torque to stop a moving car by applying frictional force to the wheels through brake pads, which impedes the axle's rotation and stops the car's forward motion. To calculate brake torque: draw a free-body diagram showing forces on the vehicle; use Newton's second law to determine the horizontal braking force from the vehicle's mass and deceleration rate; then calculate torque as the braking force multiplied by the wheel radius.

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    Torque is a force that causes an object to change its rotational speed. Brakes create torque to stop a moving car by applying frictional force to the wheels through brake pads, which impedes the axle's rotation and stops the car's forward motion. To calculate brake torque: draw a free-body diagram showing forces on the vehicle; use Newton's second law to determine the horizontal braking force from the vehicle's mass and deceleration rate; then calculate torque as the braking force multiplied by the wheel radius.

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    How To Calculate Brake Torque

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    Torque is a force that causes an object to change its rotational speed. Brakes create torque to stop a moving car by applying frictional force to the wheels through brake pads, which impedes the axle's rotation and stops the car's forward motion. To calculate brake torque: draw a free-body diagram showing forces on the vehicle; use Newton's second law to determine the horizontal braking force from the vehicle's mass and deceleration rate; then calculate torque as the braking force multiplied by the wheel radius.

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    How to Calculate Brake Torque

    Torque is a force exerted on an object; this force tends to cause the object to
    change its speed of rotation. A car relies on torque to come to a stop. The brake
    pads exert a frictional force on the wheels, which creates a torque on the main
    axle. This force impedes the axle's current direction of rotation, thus stopping the
    car's forward movement.

    Steps
    Draw a free-body diagram. A free-body diagram isolates one object and replaces
    all external objects with vector or torsional forces. This allows you to sum forces
    and determine the net force and torque acting on an object.

    Show all forces acting on the vehicle as the driver begins to brake. There is the
    downward force of gravity, and there is also the upward force exerted by the road.
    These two forces are equal and opposite, so they cancel each other out. The
    remaining force is the frictional force exerted by the road, which acts horizontally
    in the direction opposite to the vehicle's motion. As an example, suppose you are

    analyzing a 2,000 kilogram Jeep that has just begun braking. Your diagram would
    show two equal and opposite vertical forces of 19,620 Newtons, which sum up to
    zero, and some undetermined horizontal force.

    Determine the horizontal force of the road using Newton's second law--the force
    on an object equals its mass times its acceleration. You presumably either know or
    can obtain the weight of the vehicle from manufacturer specifications, but you will
    need to calculate the rate of deceleration. One of the simplest ways to do this is to
    assume an average rate of deceleration from the time the brakes are first applied,
    to the point of release. The deceleration is then the total change in speed divided
    by the time that elapsed during the braking process. If the Jeep went from a speed
    of 20 meters per second down to 0 meters per second in 5 seconds, so its average
    deceleration would be 4 meters per second per second. The force required to
    cause this deceleration equals 2,000 kg * 4 m/s/s, which equals 8,000 Newtons.
    Calculate the torque that the force of the road causes about the axle. Because
    torque equals force times its distance from the point of rotation, the torque
    equals the force of the road times the radius of the wheel. The force of the road is
    the equal and opposite torsional reaction caused by the brakes, so the braking
    torque is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the torque exerted by
    the road. If the Jeep's wheel has a radius of 0.25 meters, the braking torque equals
    8,000 N * 0.25 m, or 2,000 Newton-meters.

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