Stage	Key Stage	Subjects	Title
Secondary	KS4	Mathematics and Physics	BLOODHOUND SSC Mathematical Model - how can we make BLOODHOUND travel at 1000 mph?

 

“All models are wrong, but some are useful” is a famous phrase by the statistician George Box. These articles will show you how to progress from a simple mathematical model to a more complex, more useful model.

In this first article of a series, we start from an inaccurate and not very useful model, which uses basic maths and physics to model the motion of BLOODHOUND. Gradually, we will improve this model to make it closer to the real world, introducing more sophisticated mathematics as we go, until we have a model that is useful.

The final model will be very close to the one actually being used today by Ron Ayers, Chief Aerodynamics Engineer, to predict how fast the car will go.

 

Downloads:

BLOODHOUND_SSC_Mathematical_Model_part_1 (pdf - 195kb)