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Re: Lightweight wheels...drive only?

To: pethier@isd.net
Subject: Re: Lightweight wheels...drive only?
From: jon e prevo <tcbracer@juno.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 09:25:33 -0500
> 
> hy·per·bo·le
> : extravagant exaggeration (as "mile-high ice-cream cones")
> 
> "The car is a tank" is a metaphor.
> 
hy-per-bo-le  n.  An exaggeration or overstatement intended to produce an
effect without being taken literally, as:  He was centuries old.

If I remember, the exact wording was something like,"think of a car as a
tank."

Metaphore, yes.  Probably a more apt (more common in normal perception)
description, and obviously the intent of the author.  

Hyperbole, yes, also, though that was, I will admit, an esoteric usage.  

Hey, this is fun.  Now let's argue about the moments of inertia of the
three largest shards of the space shuttle Discovery.

I have devised an experiment to test the physics of rotational mass in
relation to 1)work required in linear lb/ft to rotate a wheel and
2)additional work required to tow another wheel, same weight, same
diameter, while exerting rotational force only on the first.  I'll let
you know what my findings are.  My postulus is that the added work
required to move the two wheels in tandem will be less than the work
required to rotate the first wheel alone.

Your postulus is that the work required will be equal for both wheels,
even though rotational force is being applied to only one wheel, correct?

Jon FP 73

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