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🔥 Disc Brake Thermal Fade: When Friction Turns Against You (2D)

Canvas2D companion: a side-view rotor/pad schematic, a scrolling pad-temperature strip-chart, and a live friction-coefficient-vs-temperature curve show how repeated hard braking pumps heat in faster than it can dissipate, pushing the pad past its peak-grip zone into thermal fade.

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⚙ Under the hood

Canvas2D companion: a side-view rotor/pad schematic, a scrolling pad-temperature strip-chart, and a live friction-coefficient-vs-temperature curve show how repeated hard braking pumps heat in faster than it can dissipate, pushing the pad past its peak-grip zone into thermal fade.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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