[Land-speed] British Steam effort 139.843mph

[Skip Higginbotham]

Dang! Jack don't give BO any more ideas....next there will be a Czar..........

Skip



At 08:36 AM 9/2/2009, NT788 at comcast.net wrote:
>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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