Land Transportation Review

What do we call the study of friction?

• Anthropology
• Ecology
• Tribology
• Frictionology

The body of the dragster should be smooth to decrease what?

• Friction
• Drag
• Lift
• Thrust

You want a large flat upright surface on the front of your dragster.

• True
• False

For a land transportation vehicle a wind tunnel test can measure drag.

• True
• False

Without this objects would never come to rest.

• Drag
• Friction
• Thrust
• Gravity

The heavier a vehicle is the faster it will go.

• True
• False

The larger the frontal area of a vehicle the faster the vehicle will go.

• True
• False

What causes the vehicle to slow down? 

• Friction
• Turbulence
• Frontal Area
• All of the above

What is the vacuum created behind a vehicle which slows a vehicles speed?

• Friction
• Base Drag
• Mass 
• Force

What is the part of the vehicle that is facing the direction of the vehicle's movement?

• Axles
• Wheels
• Tail
• Frontal Area