The question is not how to eliminate friction. The question is how to manage it so it becomes traction and traction becomes ...

Tire traction safety plays a critical role in wet-weather driving, braking performance, and crash prevention on U.S. roads.

Typical curve shows that traction coefficient of a normal passenger car tire falls off greatly as vehicle speed increases. All the torque in the world acting on the rear end pinion gear isn't going to ...

1.1 What is friction? Take this everyday example: when a coffee mug rests on a flat table, the kinetic frictional force is zero. There is no force trying to move the mug across the table, so there is ...