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Old 20 Oct 2002, 02:09 (Ref:408295)   #8
05forever
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Dude, I got the slide rule out and unfortunatly the basic year 12 Physics rules I studied many moons ago are based on constant acceleration and frictionless surfaces. In reality the Drag building (squaring for each doubling of speed) and the power curve and gearing of the engine delievering a non linear delivery of power and also the grip of the tyres/road being non constant and or variable delivering a diminishing rate of return for effort means that the answer I got after an hour is so is not be accurate. (what a waste of time)

If they are then the 3.25 secs for 100m cannot be accurate, The extension of this to a 400 m time would also be around 8.5 seconds

3.25 seconds for 100 m = Linear Acceleration of Approx 19 m/ps2 (about 2G)

Time Taken for 20M = 1.48 sec, 50M = 2.29sec, 100m = 3.25 sec 200M = 4.95sec
Speed at 20M= 101kMH, 50 M = 155kmh, 100M = 222.3km/h

This indicated 0-100 at < 1.5seconds therefore not possible

So the linear stuff doesn;t work sorry
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