What's the average of 5 MPG and 10 MPG?
The math isn't quite obvious to me, but if you go out camping and get 5 MPG on the way to the campground and turn around and get 10 MGP on the way back, your average MPG won't be 7.5 as you would expe...
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frizzen wrote:cameronpatentlaw wrote:
Actually, to be precise, we'd have to use calculus and take the derivative of a function at the time you are measuring the fuel consumption to determine the rate at which you are burning fuel. That function must take into account a lot of factors--wind vector, vehicle weight (which itself is continuously changing as fuel is burned), coefficient of friction between road and tires (which is also continuously changing based on road surface characteristics such as tire wear), road inclination or declination, moon location, as if it is overhead, it's gravity will slightly pull the coach up affecting the force of gravity from the earth pulling the coach down. The weight of Cheetos in the coach should not change the formula too much if they are eaten, except to the extent weight moves from the cabinet over the back wheels to the drivers' seat over the left front wheel. Physicists refer to the foregoing as Winnebago's equation. Cheers,
Mike era70x.com
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