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Old 12-17-2004 | 10:39 AM
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Default RE: scale speed

ORIGINAL: poor judgement

hmmm hang on.....

dont constants such as gravity and friction coefficents kinda screw the real calculations up some what?
Yes it does. For example, model airplanes have much thicker wings than their full-size counterparts because air molecules remain the same size. As kurosen pointed out, the road (and it’s problems) remains the same size.) Finally, air resistance is a cube function, so it takes a tremendous amount of extra power to go faster than to go slower.

All that being the case, however, the scale still applies. But remember, 1/12 on-road cars go 60 mph in actual races. That’s why the concept of scale speed is so abstract that it doesn’t have any useful meaning.