How to find the optimal banking speed for a luge track?
Posted September 24th, 2009 by admin 1 Comment »
JK asked:
This is a physics problem.
This is a physics problem.
Hello, I am doing this topic for my physics project. The topic is on the luge tracks. In order to find the optimal banking speed, we came up with using the formula:
tan(angle)= v^2/rg
This would require us to know the angle and the radius.
My question is: is this the correct way to find the optimal banking speed? In addition, I am convinced that there is no such thing as “optimal banking speed.”