RE: Driving cars hard (high rpm's)

["Crane, Damien" <d3c@TENNANTCO.com>]

Inertia (and the force needed to create or diminish it) increases with
the square of the velocity.

I=mv^2

> ----------
> From: 	Ilias Glavinas[SMTP:elias@tesla.wustl.edu]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, August 25, 1998 10:45 AM
> Cc: 	Scirocco List
> Subject: 	Re: Driving cars hard (high rpm's)
> 
> 
> 
> 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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