Yeah, I figgured Akira knew his basic physics by this point. :) He IS in Mechanical Engineering (right?)...
At 05:24 PM 2/11/00 -0800, W. Lee Hendrick wrote: >At 6:49 PM -0500 2/11/00, Patrick Austin wrote: >> >Also, 100-50 mph braking is *very* tough on the brakes. Do the math. >>>Kinetic energy increases by the square of the velocity. A 100-50 mph >>>braking only has 133% more energy than 100-0 mph braking. >> >>Umm, 133% more? Braking from 100-50 involves 75% of the emergy as 100-0, >>right? (100*100 - 50*50) / (100*100) :) > > Right. Expressed another way, braking from 100-0 only >dissipates 33% more energy than braking from 100-50. The original >statement had two typos: 133% should read 33%, and 100-50 and 100-0 >were mixed up; but I got the gist of it. > > Lee > >W. Lee Hendrick > >[email protected] >http://soliton.ucsd.edu/~hendrick/ > > ************** Patrick Austin [email protected] (617)493-6636 ************** _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
