Newton's second law state that a force on a drag racer is equal to the mass of the car times it's acceleration. one of the most important factors determining the cars acceleration is the tires on the car. this is because the force accelerating the car forward is provided by

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Darius Sullivan

Physics

18 March, 23:19

Newton's second law state that a force on a drag racer is equal to the mass of the car times it's acceleration. one of the most important factors determining the cars acceleration is the tires on the car. this is because the force accelerating the car forward is provided by

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Jacobs · Answer 1

The force being provided the car more specifically would be the torque of each individual tire multiplied by some friction coefficient between the tire and the concrete multiplied by 4 since there are 4 tires.

Aedan Crawford · Answer 2

I believe the answer you are looking for is the friction of the tires on the race track