Re: Tire marks on road

["Fakhruddin, Hasanbhai" <hfakhrud@BSU.EDU>]

Thanks for the very appropriate reference, John.

Hasan Fakhruddin
Instructor of Physics
The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities
BSU
Muncie, IN 47306
E-mail: hfakhrud@bsu.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: John S. Denker [mailto:jsd@MONMOUTH.COM] 
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:35 AM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: Tire marks on road

"Fakhruddin, Hasanbhai" wrote:
> A tire mark on a road due to hard braking is dark at one end and fades
> out at the other.  Which way was the vehicle moving when the brakes
were
> slammed?
>
> This morning I wondered when I saw such marks.

http://www.google.com/search?q=tire+skid-marks+lighter+darker

Or you could just read this month's Car and Driver.
See handy table at end of article.

http://www.caranddriver.com/xp/Caranddriver/features/2002/october/200210
_feature_skidroad.xml

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or
the AAPT.

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.