Now load the car with 50% more weight (500 kg). The additional contact area needed is 55 cm^2 per tire. If you assume that the side walls don't deform, the contact length increases to 9 cm. The change in volume from this additional flattening of the tire is quite small.
Mountain City is a town in Johnson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 2,383 at the 2000 census and 2,531 at the 2010 census. Mountain City is the county seat of Johnson County. It is the northeasternmost county seat in Tennessee.
Mary J. (Neatherly) Barker, age 96, of Mountain City, TN, passed away on Sunday, April 9, 2017 at the Johnston Memorial Hospital in Abingdon, VA. She was born December 14, 1920, in Johnson County TN to the late Walter Neatherly and Ellen Tester Neatherly.