[s-cars] lights

[Mark Strangways]

I take it all back... forgot to add the F*&^%^&& 60 to the 5280...
Doh, don't I look dumb.

Ohh well, it was in the AM and I have a bad cold... 

I am gonna go with that excuse, yeah that's it

Mark 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Strangways" <Strangconst at rogers.com>
To: "Kent McLean" <kentmclean at mindspring.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] lights


> Isn't it 88 feet per minute
> Last time I checked there where 60 minutes in an hour.
> 
> Am I daft'd today ?
> 
> Mark 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kent McLean" <kentmclean at mindspring.com>
> To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 11:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] lights
> 
> 
>> Tim Dahm wrote:
>>> I get 17.6 feet in .2 sec
>>> On 4/17/06, Mark Strangways <Strangconst at rogers.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > c'mon now...
>>> > It sure doesn't take a half second to warm the filament...
>>> > I think 200 mSec is a more standard number.
>>> >
>>> > At 60 MPH that's a whole 3.52 inches...
>> 
>> That's because you are using 88 ft/sec * 0.2 seconds. Now, if 
>> you apply the new math they're teaching these days, you need 
>> to recognize that mSec is really a metric second, so you need 
>> to divide the 17.6 feet by 60 (the Imperial second to metric 
>> second conversion factor) to arrive at .293 feet or 3.52 inches.
>> [1]
>> 
>> Now, if it were 17.6 feet, that's the difference between 
>> a bad accident and an almost accident.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Kent McLean
>> '94 100 S Avant, "Moody"
>> '89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke
>> 
>> [1] tongue totally in cheek
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