The air resistance is a square function, the power required to overcome is a cube function. Alistair
> On Mar 30, 2015, at 4:43 AM, Larry Alofs <lalofs@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > That's interesting. I thought it went as the square. > > Larry A. > > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:32 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> > wrote: > >> At 09:23 AM 3/29/2015, Dennis Haynes wrote: >> >>> Wind resistance is such a large force to overcome you still use power to >>> get >>> down most descents. I really see this effect with the motor home. It take >> >> And that goes up with the cube of speed, eight times for every >> doubling of speed. >> >> Yrs, >> d >> |
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