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Message no. 1
From: Tobias Berghoff <Zixx@*****.TEUTO.DE>
Subject: Re: Power Plant Mania
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 14:11:00 GMT
on 18.11.97 landsquid@*******.COM wrote:

Anybody with fear of physics stay out. This is getting ugly.

[snipped my nice formulae]

l> This is mathematically identical to simply mutiplying by the square root
l> of the ratio of power increse- in this case, the sqrt of 2, for 2
l> identical engines.
l>
l> IIRC, drag actually increses as the CUBE of speed, all other things
l> equal. Something to do with vortice formation in 3 dimensionsand such
l> bullshit. No, It's real physics, I just forget the actual formula.
l> Doubling speed requires 8 times as much power!

Nope. The formula for drag is

Cw * A * p * v^2ý


P.S. Do we have an official list.member.physics ? :)



Tobias Berghoff a.k.a Zixx a.k.a. Charon, your friendly werepanther physad.

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Message no. 2
From: The Bookworm <Thomas.M.Price@*******.EDU>
Subject: Re: Power Plant Mania
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:36:43 -0600
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Tobias Berghoff wrote:

> on 18.11.97 landsquid@*******.COM wrote:
> Anybody with fear of physics stay out. This is getting ugly.

Not that uglie. I mean we arnt talking about drafting, energy loss do to
vacume behind the object, reletivity effects(measerable on suborbitals),
ect:)

> l> IIRC, drag actually increses as the CUBE of speed, all other things
> l> equal. Something to do with vortice formation in 3 dimensionsand such
> l> bullshit. No, It's real physics, I just forget the actual formula.
> l> Doubling speed requires 8 times as much power!
> Nope. The formula for drag is
>
> Cw * A * p * v^2ý

Sigh, and i dont have the areanotics textbook with me (the college
bookstore orderd an areanotics textbook for the Quantum Mechanics course.
Luckaly i went to buy my books early and was able to tell the proff the
week BEFORE school started so we could get teh right book:)) I thought
there were some other factors in there. Depends on what your meaning by
Cw(having a braino and dont rember what it stands for)

> P.S. Do we have an official list.member.physics ? :)

No but i think we have founded the official list.comitee.physics.amature:)

Thomas Price
aka The Bookworm
thomas.m.price@*******.edu
tmprice@***********.com

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