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Bloodhound SSC

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The Bloodhound supersonic car (SSC) is an engineering project designed to capture the imagination of young people, including you, and get them to think about science, mathematics and engineering as possible future careers

Figure 1 Bloodhound SSC rear dynamic

The terms in bold link to topics in the AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC and CCEA A-level specifications, as well as the IB, Pre-U and SQA exam specifications.

The engineering challenge of making a supersonic vehicle involves many areas of physics: forces must accelerate, but not destabilise, the vehicle; velocity and acceleration must be monitored and controlled. It is also important to understand how sound speed depends on molecular motion and hence on temperature.

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