stopping distance
What stopping distance means in Physics GCSE, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
The sum of the distance the vehicle travels during the driver's reaction time and the distance it travels under the braking force.
The total distance a vehicle travels from the moment the driver decides to brake until the vehicle stops.
The distance read from a graph against speed, made up of a thinking part and a braking part.
Topics that use stopping distance
- Stopping distance (AQA GCSE)
- Physics on the move (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- braking distance
- thinking distance
- Everyday transport speeds
- Experimental method
- force
- graph interpretation
- Kinetic energy
- Order-of-magnitude estimation
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