u/Dungeons-and-Dampers

▲ 10 r/FSAE

So, idk if I'm just dumb or if this is an actual discrepancy but according to Derek Seward's RCD, anti-squat is given by the following formula.

L is wheelbase length and h is the height of CoM and the angle is said to be the angle between the line drawn horizontal from wheel center to the IC.

The problem arises when other sources define the 100% anti-squat line as the line joining the wheel center and the CoM. Mathematically it doesn't make sense in the slightest with the whole thing becoming 100% only when I take the tan function as the height of the CG by the wheelbase which doesn't really make physical sense. Am I just overthinking this?

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u/Dungeons-and-Dampers — 12 days ago