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Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive

Posted by michael on from the science-at-its-finest dept.

UnknownSoldier writes "Ever wondered how fast CD-ROM drives can spin their CDs before the CD will self destruct due to centrifugal force? This person was too, and has his results. (So much for those 100x drives)."

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  1. maximum speed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What I want to know is, what is the maximum speed of Hemo's jaw dropping when I whip out my pecker?

    Rob M.

  2. Re:If you want to go even faster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You think wankers. You obivously know nothing about physics. Centrifugal force is a force that doesn't exist. It is the observable effect from an external reference frame of the interactions of Newton's laws. Basically, there is a restoring force which keeps the disc in a circular path (when the elasticity in the disc can no longer provide enough restoring force, the disc explodes). It is the effect of this, and Newton's law that states an object will move in a straight line at constant velocity unless external forces are applied, which leads to the effect of centrifugal force, where really what is happening is the objects spinning are attempting to move in a straight line.