On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu> wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Mark Jurras wrote:
>
>> Or so you thought. This morning the daily lab discussion was about
>> overdrive equiped cars. The question is: if you drive a car at 45 MPH
>> in 4th no O/D and calculate the Mileage then drive the same course and
>> conditions at the same RPM in 4th + O/D and calculate the Mileage,
>> which is better 45 no O/D or faster with O/D.
>
>The most important variable would be air resistance. You would use less
>gas per mile at the lower car speed, because the energy needed to overcome
>air resistance would be substantially less.
>
> Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
> Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
> gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
>
>
>Just to keep this thing complicated, obviously those west of the Mississippi
>at
higher altitude (thin air) get better mileage.
Mike Leckstein(looking out the window at our end of fall blizzard.)
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