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Newtons Are a Unit of Mileage
- madcaptenor 2y agoMileage for gas cars is measured in square meters: https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/
- addaon 2y agoOr inverse acres.
- anticensor 2y agoI indeed knew the energy equivalent mileage simplified to tractive effort. What else could it have simplified to?
- titaniumtown 2y agoI've actually done the same thing with modeling my car at different speeds! I used linear regression though haha. I have the same car too!What a coincidence. Time to compare homework!
- sudosysgen 2y agoI'm pretty sure there's an issue in the first equation. A Nm (Newton-meter) is the cross-product between a force and a distance and is a vector quantity (more specifically a bivector), while a watt is a dot product and is a scalar quantity. Converting Nm to W is a dimensional analysis error. Similarly mileage is force along the direction of travel, but that's moreso a nitpick.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoI'm not very good at dinensional analysis, but both 'units' and Wolfram Alpha agree that Nm and Wh are interchangeable.