Best P185/60R15 for traction. LRR a plus.

[sbergman27]

Originally Posted by ddongbap

Aww, thats too much reading.

Don't read it! Watch it! :-)

Walter Lewin's lectures are works of art. Although this is, unfortunately, the one in this series where he's ill. Usually he ends up flying through the air between trapeze bars, electrified by a Vandergraff generator, or nearly decapitated by a Focault Pendulum, in order to underscore his trademark declaration: "Physics works!".

Each semester, he rehearses each lecture 3 times in front of an audience of at least one.

He does, BTW, address the temperature issue you bring up here. But slyly. He always leaves the students with at least one problem, with a non-obvious answer, to ponder. In this case, it's the width of race car tires.

I posted the link to OCW not so much to make an argument for wider or narrower, but because Walter is a very, very dedicated, cool, and inspirational professor, of a breed that this world could do with a lot more of. And, of course, it *is* pertinent to the topic at hand.

-Steve