Bob Palmer wrote:
> Theo,
>
> ..............Is there a category for
> inertial powered land speed record cars? I know they have one for battery
> powered cars. Maybe we could work on the fastest inertial powered Sunbeam.
> What would it take to break 200 mph?
>
> Bob
Bob,
What a great idea. Unfortunately, you can only make left turns! {9->
Steve
BTW: Hope they've got a pretty good "scatter shield" for that dynamometer
inertial flywheel.
Little Basics for newcomers to this argument:
Seems to me, back in the cave days when we were using brake dynamometers, that
there was a water, or oil pump loading model. On all of them you used a lever
arm and a load measuring device. That gave you the torque, and the RPM was
easy.
Net result was horsepower. Many just do not grasp that torque and rpm are the
ONLY two variables that are, or need, to be measured to determine horsepower.
>From this curve of torque and rpm, the horsepower vs rpm is plotted by HP=
>(Torque
(lbf-ft) x pi x RPM) / 33,000. The 33,000, as you know, is just to adjust for
all
the measurement units.
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