Banked+Racecourses

=Banked Racecourses=

The purpose of banking is so that it makes them maintain their balance around turns so that they dont skid out and fall. It also lets you maintain your speed around sharp turns so you don't have to slow all the way down and take the turn slowly.



If you were to enter a 12 degree banked curve with a radius of 40 m, you should be going approximatly 9.05 meters per second. We calculated this by taking the square root of 0.171 multiplied by the radius of the curve and the measure of the angle of the curve.



If you were design a racetrack that has a curve with a radius of 80 meters and you want the average speed on this part of the track to be 11 meters per second, the angleat which you should bank the curve at 8.85 degrees. We calculated this by putting the square root of 0.171 multiplied by 80x equal to 11 and then solve to eventually get 8.85 degrees.



If you were to design another curve and bank it at 7 degrees and you want the average speed on this part of the track to be 12 meters per second, your radius of the curve should be 120.3 meters. We calculated this by putting the square root of 0.171 multiplied by 7x equal to 12 then solved and got 120.3 meters.