Vehicle Stopping Distance Calculator

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Vehicle Stopping Distance Calculator

• Team Members
• Jean-Claude Akakpo
• Matthew Jacobs
• D. Sturm
• Introduction People tend to underestimate
• a vehicles stopping time. This is the cause of
  several
• traffic accidents. Knowing the actual stopping
  distance of a car will greatly reduce the amounts
  of accidents on Texas roads and highways.

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Background

• Theory A vehicles stopping distance is
  dependent on the vehicles velocity (speed) as
  well as the coefficient of friction of the road
  surface.
• Equation d v02 / (2 µ g)
• Variables
• D Stopping distance (feet)
• v0 vehicles velocity (feet/second)
• µ surface coefficient of friction
• g acceleration due to gravity

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Method

• The user inputs the cars velocity (speed) and
  the roads coefficient of friction.
• The program outputs the stopping distance d of
  the car in a picture box.