RE: swept area

["Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton" <aidrian.bridgeman-sutton@domain.elided>]

~We're serious--swept area really only affects pad life and heat
~dissipation (which is, as someone said, a factor in brake
~performance, but not a first-order one, and has more to do with
~repeated braking than one-time stopping performance).
~

Yes.

It's one of those counter intuitive things, but the fact is that *all
other things being equal* the braking is governed by the materials of
the disc and the brake pads and the force applied to the pads. Area has
absolutely nothing to do with it, which is something that catches out a
lot of first year physics students.
 
Aidrian
Sunny Yorkshire

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