Re: Driving cars hard (high rpm's)

[Ilias Glavinas <elias@tesla.wustl.edu>]

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Jason wrote:

> increase exponentially with engine speed.  Why?  Because, remember, those
> four little pistons are under a tremendous amount of force.  The force
> needed just to get them to go up, stop, go down, stop, go up, etc... is
> enormous.  And those forces increase exponentially.  So, while I have no


Being electrically but not very mechanically inclined, I would love for 
someone on the list to tell us why the forces increase exponentially as 
opposed to linearly, or whatever else. 


Ilias
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