RE: Driving cars hard (high rpm's)

[Ilias Glavinas <elias@tesla.wustl.edu>]

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Alex Tomic wrote:

> At 11:35 AM 8/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >Inertia (and the force needed to create or diminish it) increases with
> >the square of the velocity.
> >
> >I=mv^2
> 
> Uhhmmm.... just finished a first year physics class in the spring... i'm
> pretty certain intertia/"moment" is mv not mv^2

Yes, but the real question is: did you open your textbook to doublecheck? :-)


Actually, I was the one who started all this. I was a bit confused 
because in physics/engineering circles, where I am, when one says 
exponential, it means: e^x, and not x^y. Anyway, clearly the piston 
movement has nothing to do with e^x, which would scare the hell out of me 
if it did.


Ilias
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