Abstract
The bicycle provides a context-rich problem accessible to students in a first-year physicscourse, encircling several core physics principles such as conservation of total energy andangular momentum, dissipative forces, and vectors. In this article, I develop a simplenumerical model that can be used by any first-year physics student to investigate themaximum speed of a road bicycle under various real-world conditions. The model calculatesspeed as a function of time for a given set of input parameters, such as the rider’s inputpower (delivered through the drive train to the rear wheel) and frontal surfacearea.
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