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Re: Anybody study Physics or Applied Maths at School?
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Originally posted by b3lha
This is Newtons Second Law: Acceleration is proportional to Force. More commonly written as Force = Mass x Acceleration.
This can be rewritten as a=F/m.
acceleration is change in velocity over time (v-u)/t
(v-u)/t = F/m
t=m(v-u)/F
v-u is constant because we are talking 0-60 time.
Then you have to play with some constants to convert from SI units to the everyday american ones and you end up with.
time = mass / force * some constant.
Which is exactly the formula you gave.
Phil.
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Thanks Phil.
You must be an engineer.
Larry III (Mech. Eng'r.)
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