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Old 08-22-2012, 10:10 AM   #9 (permalink)
Maury Markowitz
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White Whale - '06 Honda Civic Hybrid DX
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Originally Posted by Piwoslaw View Post
The formula you gave is for (kinetic) energy, ie that is the energy of a vehicle with mass m and speed v. Much better would be to use F=ma. Acceleration a has time in it (time squared, actually), so the greater the acceleration, the more fuel had to be burned to produce enough more force.
Sorry, this is not correct. There is no relation between force and fuel use.

Perhaps I should have mentioned I'm a physicist. Because I am :-)
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