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Brakes- What they are for ?
Actually there are two answers.one of them is the short ,simple one and it sounds:they slow your vehicle down.However there is one more answer,which is a little bit longer and more complex.It is:
Brakes are invented and created to slow down your car, bus, motorbike, it depends on what part of transport you use, but, what is highly possible, not by the means that you think. The common misconception is that brakes squeeze against a drum or disc, and the pressure of the squeezing action is what slows you down.To be honest, this is only part of the reason you slow down. Brakes are mainly a mechanism to change energy types. Each vehicle has a kinetic energy,while it is traveled at some speed.When the brakes are in use,this kinetic energy starts to change in thermic energy via fraction.The heat is dissipated by the cooling of breaks,and you slow down. This is The First Law of Thermodynamics, also known as the law of conservation of energy. This states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, it can only be converted from one form to another. In this case energy is being converted from kinetic to thermal.
Angular force. Due to the configuration of the brake rotor and pads in a disc brake, the location of the point of contact where the friction is generated also provides a mechanical moment to resist the turning motion of the rotor.
