Old Sep 19, 2010 | 04:59 PM
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Default Re: Found out how much downforce the wing puts out

I would like to see how that equation was derived. It seems kind of weird that the angle is just thrown in the with the rest of the measurements... The units of the final answer should really be ºN. Downforce should be the resultant vector in the Y direction, drag would be the vector in the X direction. I would imagine there would be an cosine or something somewhere in the mix.
 
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