About

Objectives
Promoting automotive engineering.
Providing design tools for building a car from scratch.
Stimulating curiosity by explaining the theory behind the math.
Means
Presenting the application before the theory.
As little text as possible.
Straight to the point.
Equations
All equations are written for SI units unless otherwise noted.
Printing
Some browsers (Chrome & Opera) may have difficulties printing the pages. Just click the «Print» button in the top menu to open another page version, more printer-friendly.
When printing, you may have to scale down in order to fit the paper size. Just go to the «Page Setup» of your browser to adjust the scaling and check with «Print Preview» before printing.
In order to print correctly (especially the charts), you must specify in your browser settings to print also the background. Usually, in the «Page Setup» of your browser, you have to enable «Print backgrounds colors and images».
Sources
There is a lot of original material on this site. But there is no need to redo what is already done, so there is material coming:
From the web, as much as possible.
Important pages are copied on this site (in case links are broken). There is no special formatting on these pages.
Direct citations from the web are written this way. Clicking on them brings you to the source (the previous example sends you to the home page of this site).
Sources for images taken from the web can be access by clicking on them.
From books
Copyright
There is no copyright on this site.

The politic is:
Once it's out of your head, it's public domain.
It is not the idea that you have that counts, it's what you do with it.What you do with the information is your responsability. This includes verifying its accuracy and pertinence.
References are presented throughout this site to validate the information presented. The authors or publishers of these references may claim some rights on their work.
Contact
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Thanks
This site is built using help from the web. Without the following, the job would be a lot harder or the results a lot simpler:
- The Site Wizard (general reference)
- W3Schools (HTML 4.01, CSS, JavaScript & color mixer)
- Lutz Tautenhahn (charts & 3D)
- Jonathan Snook (text rotation)
- QuirksMode (browser detect, cookie)
- Pages-Web − in french (encrypted «mailto:»)
- My Physics Lab (equations)
- Alan Wood (special characters)
- CamStudio − used for the tutorials
- Suresh Gopalan − for pointing out a mistake about the mass factor on the acceleration simulator
Thank you.