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When your speed is doubled, your braking distance is multiplied by four.
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As a vehicles speed increases it's stopping distance?
With increased speed, stopping distance increases.
What happens to the stopping distance when the vehicle speed increases?
The distance needed to stop also increases.
Does traveling at a high speed require greater stopping distance?
Yes
How does speed affect stopping?
The faster you are going the longer the stopping distance is. The slower you are going the shorter the stopping distance is. E.G. Speed of a car Thinking distace Breaking distance Total stopping distance mph meters meters meters 30 9 14 23 40 12 24 36 50 15 38 53 70 21 75 96
What happens to the stopping distance when a vehicle increases it's speed?
The distance needed to stop also increases.
If you double your speed youwillneed fourtimes the distance to stop?
No.
As a vehicles speed increases it's stopping distance?
With increased speed, stopping distance increases.
What happens to the stopping distance when the car speed increases?
Stopping distance also increases.
As a vehicles speed increases what happens to stopping distance?
It increases faster than the speed increase ... approximately the square of the speed. So twice the speed results in 4 times the stopping distance.
What is the difference between direct proportion and indirect proportion?
Two variables are said to be in direct proportion if, when you increase one by some multiple, the other also increases by that same multiple. Alternatively, both decrease by the same proportion. Two variables are in indirect (or inverse) proportion if an increase in one of them is associated with a decrease in the other, and conversely. The proportional change in both is the same. For example, if I change the speed at which I am driving, then the distance that I can cover in a fixed amount of time will change in the same proportion. Double my speed then double the distance, quadruple speed and quadruple distance, halve the speed and halve the distance. So speed and distance are directly proportional. Now think of speed and the time taken to do a fixed distance. Double my speed and halve the time. Halve the speed then double the time. So time taken is inversely proportional to speed.
What is the Stopping distance at 20 mph?
using the formula, speed squared divided by 20 plus speed gives 40 feet approximate stopping distance at 20mph.
Is it twice the stopping distance for a car in freezing conditions?
No - the stopping distance depends on the speed of the vehicle - it' not simply a case of 'doubling-up'.
If you double the rpm will the speed also double?
No
Does reducing speed increases a drivers stopping distance?
No it decreases it.
What happens to the stopping distance when the vehicle speed increases?
The distance needed to stop also increases.
Does traveling at a high speed require greater stopping distance?
Yes
How does speed affect stopping?
The faster you are going the longer the stopping distance is. The slower you are going the shorter the stopping distance is. E.G. Speed of a car Thinking distace Breaking distance Total stopping distance mph meters meters meters 30 9 14 23 40 12 24 36 50 15 38 53 70 21 75 96
