Recent content by mcgnms

I'm confused then, you just said that acceleration creates a pseudo gravitational field that acts like gravitational potential. Did I understand that correctly? So by resisting free fall and therefore accelerating, you presumably create gravitational potential, right?

Right, but my question still stands. Are these effects additive? When you stand on Earth's surface, whether or not you're in free fall or standing on the surface...you have gravitational potential. Now on top of that, since you're standing (and therefore accelerating at 1G), you have even more...

If I'm standing on Earth, is my time dilation actually greater than if I was in a rocket accelerating at 9.8m/s^2 in deep space due to me being in a gravitational field on top of the acceleration? Geodesics experience time dilation in gravitational fields, so it seems like there is an additive...

Acceleration and load are different things. An engine at full throttle is under full load regardless of gear or weight being pulled. F=MA where force applied (in this case torque) is the same regardless of mass because acceleration changes to equalize. I agree with your second statement...

Thank you for confirming. Thats what I originally thought.

In my car, the multiplication difference between my first gear and last gear is about 5x (4.23 vs 0.83). I never had any clutch slip in any gears despite my 6th gear putting 5x the load on the engine. As soon as I bumped engine torque from a modification by about ~15%, it started to slip. I...

Gearing comes after the clutch in our case so it shouldn't matter. Every conclusion if my analogy is wrong leads to the inevitable scenario that any arbitrarily weak engine can over power any arbitrarily strong clutch so long as there is some arbitrarily large mass or resistance behind that...

Let me add an analogy. Suppose the muscle of my arm can apply 10lbs of force and my bone can handle 10lbs of force before breaking. Suppose I want to lift a stationary 100lbs weight from the ground. My muscle is the engine, my bone is the clutch, and the weight is a car. Will my bone break...

Does the weight of a car or length of gears it has change the requirements for clutch strength or is the requirement solely dependent on the torque the engine applies to it? I see a lot of consensus that says the former, but I think it is the latter. An engine making 300 lb-ft should need a...