Subject: Help with some numbers
From: Rotary Engine
Date: 3/14/2006, 4:22 PM
To: AAme

I am about to speed big bucks so I would like you
young engineers that grew up on meters Kg Newtons
to check some numbers for me.

radius = .9685 inches  meters = ??
Circumference = 6.085  meters = ??
RPM = 10,000
Velocity = ???? meters per second

Weight .3233 pounds  Kg = ????

Force Newtons = m x V^2 / r

m in Kg
V in meters per second

Force in Newtons ??
Force in pounds?

I think the answer is 88 pounds.
-- 
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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