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Friday 23 May 2008, 15:30-16:00
Cycling in the wind
- đ¤ Speaker: Hatem Helal
- đ Date & Time: Friday 23 May 2008, 15:30 - 16:00
- đ Venue: TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory
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Abstract
Cummings A. “Cycling in the wind” European Journal of Physics, 18 (1997) 176-179
Cyclists – particularly in flat areas – will have noticed that wind increases their total time to traverse a circuit, whichever way the wind is blowing. Here we present a simple aerodynamic model to explain this effect, and give some quantitative predictions. The results indicate that the total journey time depends strongly on the wind speed, the sensitivity increasing with wind speed.
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