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Excerpt from Determination of Automobile Performance by Means of the Wimperis Accelerometer: A Thesis
The rolling resistance is made up of two parts, one due to the road surface and one due to the tires. Part of the energy wasted goes into grinding up the road and part into heating the tires. The former part is usually assumed to be independent of the Speed of the car. The resistance due to the rolling of rubber tires was shown by experiments of Ewing and of Bourlet, many years ago to be independent of the speed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
