Thread: Stone chips - mudspats calculations.
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Old 23-09-2009, 08:28 PM   #3
BruceT
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When I repeated the calculation assuming the car speed was 72 km/h = 15 m/sec, I got a height of the stone at the mudspat of 0.047 metres = 4.7 cm.
Sorry, that second calculation should be at 54 km/h, which is 15 metres/sec. Everything else remains the same.
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