The 959 can really go (3/4) c, physics is fun
 

I just started my third year at Berkeley with the second semester of upper division electrodynamics as one of my classes. I knew the 959 was fast, but not this fast...

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The book is "Introduction to Electrodynamics" by David Griffiths.

By the way, my electrodynamics teacher drives an S2000 and my lower division mechanics teacher kept using Porsche stuff as examples. He would show a diagram of a 4-cam carrera motor to show the torque ratings and he later told us to look under our turbo carreras to see what a torsion spring looks like. Luckily, I could actually do this, which greatly aided my studies.

Doesn't the 959 have bulletproof glass .........

I would think it would have to . . . to be going .75c.

I don't know, my speedometer only goes to .00005 c

Just reading that question makes my head ache. Aye Carumba, thank God I'm long done with College!

Dang! . . .thats 33530.8 mph!
Oh wait, maybe thats because I'm see you from the train leaving Boston at . . .uh . .what was the question?:confused:

Yeah, what time does Oxford Station arrive at this train?

Sorry, I'm in physics theory mode, let me switch to engineering mode and I'll give you decimals.

Well no wonder it wasn't registering. I thought the cable broke. I guess a trip to No. Ho. Speedo is in order.

Ah yes..the 4-cam Carreras.....the original Carreras born way before 911s were conceived.

My favorite physics prof drove a 356 coupe. Got to believe that they like and understand good engineering.

And why is 0.75c only 33530 mph?

c = speed o' light = 186000 mps = 669,600,000 mph.
0.75c = 502,200,000 mph.

Island is way to smart so what did I miss?

Man I miss engineering school. It was hard, but beats working for a living :). MEs always had better examples with Porsches and all. The closest I ever got as an EE was a controls prof who used his 67 Beetle as examples controls systems. Lots of fun figuring out the Laplace transform of the transfer function of the fuel pump of a 67 VW. Good times. We never got suspension examples for spring/damper systems, though. They turned them into RLC circuits for the mechanically impaired EEs.

I'll take a stab at it.
A)Yes, bullet speed = .83c
B)No, bullet speed = .71c

You missed the fact that he was responding to my .00005c speedometer post, not the .75c part.

GO BEARS!!!!!

Wolfman
(Class of '86)

Actually your speedo reads 5.0x10^-5 c. Everybody knows you've gotta use Sci notation.

and of course you'd have to say

c = 6.696 x 10^8 mph
and
.75c = 5.022 x 10^8 mph

and if we really wanted to get nit-picky we'd make you put it in m/s

c = 2.9946 x 10^8 m/s
.75c = 2.246 x 10^8 m/s

jeez, using miles per hour :rolleyes:

:D

All answers are clearly wrong: the wrongdoers would never, never use a 959: too rare and too expensive, and it just doesn't look right for wrongdoers to drive a Porsche, needs to be some red car...

Clearly a flawed question; both cars are 959s, yet the cop car is 1/4c slower than the getaway car ;)

Its obvious why the cop car is slower...that light on top and Kojak ouf the window is bound to affect the aerodynamics of the car...bald head or not.

Maybe the getaway car had extra power from the factory, like the 550bhp car AutoClassica in the UK has for sale ;)