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Re: 'The Great Train Race'
- To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
- Subject: Re: 'The Great Train Race'
- From: Peter Homann <phomann@camtech.net.au>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:55:19 +0930
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Pichi Richi Railway
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David Johnson wrote:
>
> Christian Legeland wrote:
<Big Snip>
> > The guideway will be build in a way that no radial acceleration occurs
> > to the passenger at normal cruising speed.
> > So the coffee in a cup on a table in a TR will remain 'flat'.
>
> True, there will not be any lateral movement, however, by doubling the speed
> around a curve, and increasing the super-elevation, the "vertical" G-foces will
> increase also. It will make it difficult to walk if it is too excessive.
>
Would also mean a slight compression of all coffee in cups and food on
plates. Just imagine the room temperature butter spread 3 microns thick
all over the plate! :-)
Actually, that could make spreading toast easy...just wait for a high
speed curve...
Cheers,
Peter
--
Peter Homann
Electronics Technician, volunteer firefighter,
model engineer, PRR steam fireman.
E-mail: phomann@camtech.net.au
Once got an "A" in biology for dissecting a chocolate frog.