AiS Challenge Team Abstract
Team Number: 054
School Name: Moriarty High School
Area of Science: Physics
Project Title: Quarter-Mile Racing of Legal and Non-Legal Street
Cars
Our project is based on racing cars in the most basic of street racing
ways: the Quarter-Mile. The problem: who will win? We began by looking
online at various websites and got the sixty fastest cars we could find.
Then we gathered the top speed and the 0 to 100 KPH times of all the cars.
We will use our program to determine who will win a race between any two
of the cars using a complex formula involving distance, speed and
acceleration times. We also have the 1/4 Mile stats on eac car to check
our answers against and make sure that the calculations are correct. We
hope to be able to accurately predict who will win in a 1/4 mile
between any two of our sixty cars. We plan to start our program soon
and we have already gathered all of the stats on our sixty cars and
compiled them in to an Microsoft Excel chart. We hope to enter all of
this in to structures in order to be able to differentiate between the
cars and use them individually. Our next goal after that will be to
make the program as user-friendly as possible. We also plan to find
several formulas to confirm the program's results in as many ways as
possible.
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