random vehicle dynamics information
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random vehicle dynamics information
If you have some interest in some more technical aspects of vehicle suspension, here's some random info in the form of a class webpage:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/me106/
The professor who teaches it rocks. The class involves taking his C5 Corvette and learning how to do donuts as one of his labs, and an autocross course as another. Basically, instead of working in a laboratory doing boring assignments with computers, his labs consist of taking your car onto an empty parking lot every saturday morning.
http://www.stanford.edu/class/me106/
The professor who teaches it rocks. The class involves taking his C5 Corvette and learning how to do donuts as one of his labs, and an autocross course as another. Basically, instead of working in a laboratory doing boring assignments with computers, his labs consist of taking your car onto an empty parking lot every saturday morning.
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Originally Posted by SsTiNgEr77
sounds like a fun class.. probably costs about 5 grand just to take it...
It actually costs about 2500 dollars to take it, damnit. lol.
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Originally Posted by babysmurf
haha.. yeah, it's an awesome class. i think i tried auditing the class for a bit but got too lazy 
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I didn't have boring labs in my vehicle stability class back in college.
One day we got a demonstration of high speed driving which involved watching the CHP drving instructor drift around the CHP Academy race track. That was followed by rides in CHP cruisers on the skidpad.
Another week we got flights in one of the Aero Professor's Cessna where he showed us how single control inputs oscillated themselves back to level flight. Ever been on a rollercoaster with a 700 foot drop?
Man, I miss college...
One day we got a demonstration of high speed driving which involved watching the CHP drving instructor drift around the CHP Academy race track. That was followed by rides in CHP cruisers on the skidpad.
Another week we got flights in one of the Aero Professor's Cessna where he showed us how single control inputs oscillated themselves back to level flight. Ever been on a rollercoaster with a 700 foot drop?
Man, I miss college...
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