Drivetrain Physics

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Over December vacation, my team's mechanical lead and I are planning on CADing a chassis in preparation for the build season. When I was tasked with designing our drivetrain last year, I basically just used JVN's motor spreadsheet to figure out what our high/low gear top speeds would be using a supershifter, and based everything else off of what I thought was reasonable and would work. Although this method can probably work out just fine with enough experience, I want to get into doing some in depth calculations about how the drive train would function. I am interested in learning about how to calculate top speed, current draw, traction, maybe acceleration or turning ability, etc.

So my question is if anybody here has some links to tutorials on these kinds of things. I understand that this is a very broad topic, so the tutorials might be pretty lengthy, but I have 2 weeks of no school ahead of me to pick it up.