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Originally Posted by Dascamel
e=mv^2 was just being used illustrate the amount of energy that needs to be dissapated under the two different braking situations. Made perfect sense and it does have value.
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No one was trying to disprove this equation. I might be wrong but I'm assuming it was brought up in reference to the C&D article. This equation does nothing to show how different systems dissipate heat. Or how more airflow on a track help with heat dissipation. Or how in this test there were no elevation changes like you would see on a track. Or how there was no lateral weight transfer and contrary to popular belief, not all braking is done in a straight line. affecting brake pressures on each individual brake if you had an EBD system. The point was there's more variables effecting brake performance between the controlled environment of the C&D test and an uncontrolled environment like the track than just how much work is done. Just looking at e=1/2mv^2 doesn't do much to answer many of the questions discussed in this thread.