Using physics to show accelerating quickly is not efficient, neglecting the varying efficiencies of the individual vehicles.
Power = Work/time = Kinetic Energy/time
= (0.5*m*(delta velocity)^2)/(time)
This shows that:
Mass is directly proportional to power,
Change in velocity has a squared relationship to power,
and time is inversely proportional to power,
Therefore,
the greater the mass of the vehicle and the greater the change in velocity, along with a faster acceleration time means the vehicle needs more power to accomplish the task. This power comes from the combustion of the gasoline.
Mammoth Lakes is about 10,000 feet, or 30,400 meters, above sea level, and snow makes already difficult terrain largely impassable and could bury plane wreckage.
I have had a long day, but isn't 10,000 ft equivalent to 3048 meters or 30,400 decimeters?
I do not have a subscription to the 'Journal of Applied Social Psychology,' so I can only read the summary and not the actual article (not the/. linked summary). I do not refute the findings, but upon not being able to read the full article, must inject some caution. I also tend to believe that if something "encourages" road rage, then it is a lot closer to causing it then merely correlating with it.
This is true, but unfortunately too many people nowadays, especially the higher up you go on the administrative ladder, will not know or correctly distinguish/remember the difference. The parent was simply to serve as a reminder.
Too many times have I had the misfortune to come into contact with someone who thinks that they are infallible and can walk on water simply because they have a degree.
Okay, maybe as interesting as all those tiny words at the bottom of a contract. And I guess, just as important as those, too. Just because you know or are aware of a concept, does not mean that you will automatically draw parallels and apply said concept.
Now drink some coffee or go back to sleep, because you are obviously not a morning person.
I worried about the same thing, but what actually prompted me into action was my laziness. (ironic, huh?) Under my desk, I have a full size tower with the USB ports on center of the top of the case instead of out front. I almost have to get on the floor in order to figure out where the port is located. (It is protected by a cover that also houses a firewire and earphone jacks) So instead of taking five minutes to find the port each time, I just dug out a foot long USB cable extender. Using the extension, I can have the port laying on my desk. That works great and solves all my problems.
"That means any civilisation advanced enough to have started to colonise the galaxy would have to rely on neutrino communications." I see that the bad spelling is a result of the noise from your continued use of the photon communication system.
They had to find a semi-worthwhile story to put up because they were running out of advertisements like the one here and this one. Interesting how this disaster gets a slashdot article, but the cyclone in Burma didn't, unless I missed something.
But think about the survivors. They are already going to be delusional from following a who-knows-how-big of a building crashing to the ground and being trapped in the rubble; barely clenching onto life, and now you want to have spiders and snakes crawling over them. There not going to think that their day got just got any better.
Or else they will believe that the robots have finally won. (Dang... I knew I shouldn't have flipped that switch)
Let's go mega-surfin' Dude! It will be rad(iation)! I'll bring the 3.0x10^8 SPF sunblock, you bring the Unobtainium surfboards, and Cowboy Neil will bring the beer.
The Government, well ours in the UK anyway, have been doing a great job trying to make people think that speed is somehow inherently dangerous. Heads up folks... it isn't!
So speed is like a falling? It's not the fall that kills you, its the impact. I'm not worried about driving around going 100 if I was the only one driving. I'm worried about all the other maniacs on the roads along with the road conditions. Normally, its two or more vehicles that are involved in a collision. And I don't want to be involved in a 100 mph head-on or T-bone accident. How about you?
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Using physics to show accelerating quickly is not efficient, neglecting the varying efficiencies of the individual vehicles.
Power = Work/time = Kinetic Energy/time = (0.5*m*(delta velocity)^2)/(time)
This shows that:
Mass is directly proportional to power, Change in velocity has a squared relationship to power, and time is inversely proportional to power,
Therefore, the greater the mass of the vehicle and the greater the change in velocity, along with a faster acceleration time means the vehicle needs more power to accomplish the task. This power comes from the combustion of the gasoline.
Long story short: Don't floor it.
Apparently they don't watch Mythbusters. (Archimedes' 'Death Ray' Tournament)
Mammoth Lakes is about 10,000 feet, or 30,400 meters, above sea level, and snow makes already difficult terrain largely impassable and could bury plane wreckage.
I have had a long day, but isn't 10,000 ft equivalent to 3048 meters or 30,400 decimeters?
I do not have a subscription to the 'Journal of Applied Social Psychology,' so I can only read the summary and not the actual article (not the /. linked summary). I do not refute the findings, but upon not being able to read the full article, must inject some caution. I also tend to believe that if something "encourages" road rage, then it is a lot closer to causing it then merely correlating with it.
This is true, but unfortunately too many people nowadays, especially the higher up you go on the administrative ladder, will not know or correctly distinguish/remember the difference. The parent was simply to serve as a reminder.
Too many times have I had the misfortune to come into contact with someone who thinks that they are infallible and can walk on water simply because they have a degree.
Okay, maybe as interesting as all those tiny words at the bottom of a contract. And I guess, just as important as those, too. Just because you know or are aware of a concept, does not mean that you will automatically draw parallels and apply said concept.
Now drink some coffee or go back to sleep, because you are obviously not a morning person.
Kudos for the "correlationisnotcausation" tag.
I worried about the same thing, but what actually prompted me into action was my laziness. (ironic, huh?) Under my desk, I have a full size tower with the USB ports on center of the top of the case instead of out front. I almost have to get on the floor in order to figure out where the port is located. (It is protected by a cover that also houses a firewire and earphone jacks) So instead of taking five minutes to find the port each time, I just dug out a foot long USB cable extender. Using the extension, I can have the port laying on my desk. That works great and solves all my problems.
Jupiter is starting puberty. Now, just how long will it be before it starts to repel away from the sun?
Don't mind me. Finals start tomorrow and my pocket protector is in a knot.
They had to find a semi-worthwhile story to put up because they were running out of advertisements like the one here and this one. Interesting how this disaster gets a slashdot article, but the cyclone in Burma didn't, unless I missed something.
But think about the survivors. They are already going to be delusional from following a who-knows-how-big of a building crashing to the ground and being trapped in the rubble; barely clenching onto life, and now you want to have spiders and snakes crawling over them. There not going to think that their day got just got any better.
Or else they will believe that the robots have finally won. (Dang... I knew I shouldn't have flipped that switch)
Be nice... I got a bad sunburn.
Let's go mega-surfin' Dude! It will be rad(iation)! I'll bring the 3.0x10^8 SPF sunblock, you bring the Unobtainium surfboards, and Cowboy Neil will bring the beer.
Here is a video I found on youtube a while back showing how Stonehenge could be built by only one person.
Youtube Video
Obligatory follow-up: xkcd #202
The Government, well ours in the UK anyway, have been doing a great job trying to make people think that speed is somehow inherently dangerous. Heads up folks ... it isn't!
So speed is like a falling? It's not the fall that kills you, its the impact. I'm not worried about driving around going 100 if I was the only one driving. I'm worried about all the other maniacs on the roads along with the road conditions. Normally, its two or more vehicles that are involved in a collision. And I don't want to be involved in a 100 mph head-on or T-bone accident. How about you?