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[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The 100 km/h seems a bit much to me, too, but I'm having a hard time finding info on the speed of these...

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Looked up a video of a gentle one. A revolution takes about 2๐œ‹ seconds, at which the speed in m/s is the same as the radius in meters, or around 5. Multiply by 3.6 to convert into 18 km/h, which seems realistic for the milder ones. The apparent horizontal centrifugal acceleration will then be ๐‘ฃยฒ/๐‘Ÿ = 5 msโปยฒ โ‰ˆ 0.5๐‘”, which corresponds to an angle of approx. 26ยฐ from the verical, reasonably close to the video.

The one depicted in the image probably goes about 2x as fast, pulling perhaps 2๐‘” horizontally for an angle of approx. 63ยฐ.

[โ€“] mononomi@feddit.nl 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] ignotum@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I'd let them math all over me anytime ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ˜ฉ๐Ÿงฎ

[โ€“] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

How does one count in ฯ€ โ€ข seconds?

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 12 points 6 months ago

It's about 6.5 seconds in the video. I rounded that to 2๐œ‹ so I could do the math in my head (other than the tanโปยน(0.5), of course)

[โ€“] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago

"One, two, thr- pi"