Lighter Brake Rotors Not Better?

[Mid_Life_Crisis]

Totally irrelevant comment here, but you would like "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He discusses, as one Amazon.com reviewer explained, "At risk of great oversimplification, Taleb argues quite articulately that extreme occurrences in a distribution happen a lot more frequently than humans are prone to believe." Basically, some of the most significant events in history are due to us generalizing the past, then getting burned by the statistically improbable. He mostly discusses trading in the stock markets, though, so like I said...totally irrelevant here, just a decent book to read.

If you like those kinds of books, you should read "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" by Richard Feynman. The whole book is good, and you don`t need to be a technical genius to enjoy it. There is an excellent section where he rips NASA for their bogus statistical analysis that he believes contributed greatly to the Challenger disaster. If you don`t know the name, he is the physicist who dropped the o-ring into a glass of ice water and broke it during the hearings. Brilliant, brilliant man, and very entertaining.

 

[mysleeper6]

Damn, I read to the end of the thread hoping a real engineer was going to teach us something about brakes and/or unsprung weight and I get The Book of the Month Club. Well, here's my selection: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven Levitt.

 

[8.5MS3]

if you ask me nicely ill run the numbers tonite. i just need some info on materials and sizes.

how heavy are the stock rotors? front and rear
how heavy are the stock tires?
the rest i can figure out

 

[mysleeper6]

I think there's a thread on this...

Checkin'...

 

[polysynth]

wow, another one of those "real engineers" huh.

 

[drledford93]

Totally irrelevant comment here, but you would like "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He discusses, as one Amazon.com reviewer explained, "At risk of great oversimplification, Taleb argues quite articulately that extreme occurrences in a distribution happen a lot more frequently than humans are prone to believe." Basically, some of the most significant events in history are due to us generalizing the past, then getting burned by the statistically improbable. He mostly discusses trading in the stock markets, though, so like I said...totally irrelevant here, just a decent book to read.

But, to get an accurate statistical analysis, you must throw out any data points that will skew the final analysis (as the supercars in my example from above). They may be "more frequent than we believe," but you still must throw them out because they are anomalies.

Daniel

 

[drledford93]

If you like those kinds of books, you should read "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" by Richard Feynman. The whole book is good, and you don`t need to be a technical genius to enjoy it. There is an excellent section where he rips NASA for their bogus statistical analysis that he believes contributed greatly to the Challenger disaster. If you don`t know the name, he is the physicist who dropped the o-ring into a glass of ice water and broke it during the hearings. Brilliant, brilliant man, and very entertaining.

Dr Feynman was a great mind. I've read (and still have somewhere) several of his books on QED. Very fascinating read and easy enough for me or you to understand. Several of his books are funny, too. Such as a story where he used to make money at parties by telling someone to pick up a book and put it back on the shelf where they found it. Then, by smelling the book for the humidity left on the book by handling it, he would pick out the book from hundreds. He claimed to be 100% accurate at it...yikes!

 

[ohioan]

Feel like I'm watching big bang theory

 

[Mid_Life_Crisis]

Feel like I'm watching big bang theory

I have only caught one episode of that show, and it was the one with the hottie from the terminator tv show. I have to admit, I laughed out loud numerous times while watching it.

 

[GoFast]

Feel like I'm watching big bang theory

Feel like im watching a rerun