Re: SFGAdv 2006: El Toro

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:56:13 -0500, Paul Drabek
<Raven_Rider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:36:12 -0400, Coastin_Steve@xxxxxxxxx (Coastin
>Steve) wrote:
>
>> And where do you get that El Toro will have 30% more power ? You
>>better check your physics books my friend. Lift height is potential
>>energy, not power. Power would more appropriately be related to speed
>>/ momentum......
>> El Toro 70 mph Legend 58 mph
>>So sorry, 12 mph doesn't translate to 30% more approx 20 %
>
>Guess what Steve I don't know jack *** about physics and made my
>statement from a very basic knowledge of it. So opps I was off by a
>little bit.

Well, the Energy would be proportional to height of lift, but also
depends on mass (although Schwartz will argue that). El Toro's train
probably weighs more, so speed isn't a proper energy comparison. True
power is a fairly irrelevent measure for a coaster, unless you're
talking a launched coaster. Steve needs to check the physics books
too, because Power is related to mass also (it is simply energy/time),
and that is an unknown in his equation, so his 20% is unprovable at
this point, and no more right than your 30%.

I think Both coasters will be awesome. The high speed turns ending to
El Toro si something I've always wanted to see in a coaster. And
Voyage appears to be just phenomenal. However, Legend did too, and I
think it is VERY overrated. BUt Voyage won't be full of spine
snapping laterals, which is good.


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