[Land-speed] British Steam effort 139.843mph

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I think the government should control speed attempts. They could raise taxes
and fix all the problems!

Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirkwood" <saltfever at comcast.net>
To: "land-speed" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 3:02:47 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [Land-speed] British Steam effort 139.843mph

To get 1/1000 of any distance per hour, you have to be able to resolve time
to the 0.000277 seconds. However, fundamental metrology requires at least a
resolution of 1/10 to the right of the most significant digit to avoid
rounding errors. So timing resolution must be at B least 0.000027 seconds.
The Bonneville clocks are better than that and report 7 seven places to the
right of the decimal!

B 

From: Malcolm Pittwood <mbp01 at sky.com>

(snip . . . ) "The calcualtion of the average speed . . . . " B All to a
timed accuracy of 1/1000th of a second and then expressed to 1/1000th of a
mph or kilo per hour.
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