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Default The physics of cars - a question sequence.

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Thomas Prufer wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:15:39 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:


Consider: at a given speed you want to maximise thrust. Thrust is
linearly related to torque, so what you want is to maximise the product
of torque and the speed, which happens to be the dimension of POWER.


Eh?


Consider: at a given speed you want to maximise thrust.


Ok...


Thrust is linearly related to torque,


ok...


so what you want is to maximise the product
of torque and the speed, which happens to be the dimension of POWER.


Why don't you want to maximize the torque --hence the thrust-- anymore,
like you did above?


I'd guess you're wasting your breath. ;-)

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