Re: Bicycles, trucks, trains

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

Isn't this the usual difference between city and highway driving.  City
driving involves more acceleration time.

Also, does "air cooler" mean air conditioner?  Many people get better gas
mileage with the AC running and the windows closed, than with no AC and
the increased drag of open windows.

Bob

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor

----- Original Message -----
From: Clarence Bennett <bennett@OAKLAND.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Bicycles, trucks, trains


> I wish I could figure out why my Volvo wagon usually needs fuel after
about
> 300 miles when I stay near home, but when I drive across the country,
over
> the Rockies, with the air cooler running, and going 70 mph, it goes as
much
> as 400 miles on a tankful.
>
>
>
>
>
> Clarence Bennett
> Oakland University
> Rochester, Michigan 48309
> 248 370 3418
> http://www3.acs.oakland.edu/physics/staff_info/Bennett.htm