"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:40:22 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, "Ed
Huntress" quickly quoth:

Here's an interesting story about the physics of NASCAR racing, as it's
described in a new book, and about the science teacher who wrote it to
"enliven" the science curriculum at public schools. The article doesn't
tell
you much itself but there are some leads there for anyone interested:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/sc...ed=1&8dpc&_r=1

WTF is "nonintuitive physics"?!? As my BIL used to say "Sounds like
something from the woo-woo sector."

Physics that you won't get just by eyeballing and guessing. For example,
that an air damn at the front of a car reduces drag, or the Kamm-effect rear
end on GT race cars, which results in less drag than many "streamlined" read
ends.

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Ed Huntress