In a 1/4 mile if you beat someone by a truck length, approximately how much time is that 1/10th of a second, A half of a second, 1 second? AND if a train left the station @ 5 am traveling east at 60mph Ahhhh nevermind.

 

well speed has allot to do with it and so does reaction times. if you where both to leave at the exact same times I would say about 2 to 3 tenths on average would be a good estimate. Hard to say really without exact calculations and I'm not going to figure that out,

 

Pretty good rule of thumb is a truck length is 1 tenth.

But then again like RT said that is speed relative. If John force wins by a car length that is only like .03 seconds

You:
100mph = 146.66 ft/sec. So if a truck length is say 15' long (just a guess) that would be .1022 seconds.

John Force:
320mph = 469.33 ft/sec. So to keep the same parameters, a car length of 15' would yield a .0319 second victory.

--Joe

 

LOL one day when I was in Math class, I got bored and I sat there and did the ft/s like you did. I think that is just funny.

 

going to wait on figuring that up.

 

for vehicles from like 85mph-110mph,You are looking at about 1/10 th in the quarter mile.

 

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