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Originally Posted by bikenfool
Enough talk, lets see some analysis.
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You go first.
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Originally Posted by bikenfool
My brief search didn't show up any open source simulations, but it seems like there's probably something out there somewhere. Perhaps some government project. It wouldn't be trivial, but it wouldn't be a huge task to code something up in matlab or octave. If someone knows of a sim out there point me to it. It doesn't have to be very complicated. This simple case could probably be done with some fairly simple script, but I won't be able to try it for a while. I'm sure one of you guys already have the tools ready to go  |
Translation: I can't be bothered to prove my own assertion in the face of cogent arguments to the contrary, either with real world experience or with doing any research outside of trolling for answers in this thread, so you do the work for me!
Look - you have to add potential energy to go up a hill. That energy either comes from your kinetic energy store (i.e., you slow down), or from your store of fuel. You have to lose potential energy when you go down that same hill. That either goes back into your kinetic energy store (i.e., you speed up), or gets wasted as braking.