I have seen top fuel dragsters in person on MANY occasions. I go to the drag races every year at Rockingham Dragway (North Carolina) and Bristol Dragway (Tennessee). If you have some free time, here is a link to some very interesting facts concerning top fuel dragsters: http://www.nhra.com/streetlegal/funfacts.html Quote: "that an NHRA Top Fuel dragster accelerates from 0 to 100 mph in less than .8-second, almost 11 seconds quicker than it takes a production Porsche 911 Turbo to reach the same speed?"
Thanks. thats just straggering. 0-100 in less than .8 seconds. Stradman needs to go see them to really appreciate speed. Truly unbelievable until you have seen it live.
Im sure this ride will be propelled by something like magnets which is what another ride at six flags uses to launch the cars at the start rather than drop them to gain speed.
Would the stress on internal organs be the same in accelerating 0-100 in .8 sec and decelling 100-0 in the same time? Does anyone know the G force that represents, and what the limits are for humans as far as g-force geos?
I am not positive, but I do believe the stress would be of the same magnitude (but in different directions) if you were going 0-100 or 100-0 in the same period of time. Now lets find out how many G's the driver of the dragster experiences. A few equations can give us the G forces involved in that acceleration. I do not feel like writing out all the math at the time being, so I'll just go straight to the answer. In an acceleration of 0-100 mph in .8 seconds, a force of 5.7 G's is involved. This force is very similar to that which astronauts experience when a rocket lifts off from Earth. Anyway, I am not sure how many G's a human can withstand before losing consciousness (and possibly dying?). Hope I was of a little help, -Zach
The rockets of the mercury, gemeni and apollo missions subjected astronauts to sometimes over 10 g's. Im sure an average human couldnt withstand that without passing out.
I went sky-diving in vegas. So much better then any roller-coaster. It is like Threesome to masturbation.
The record as far as I know is held by John Paul Stapp, he withstood close to 45 G's. Even an airline pilot I knew found it hard to believe. enjoy. http://www.spacefame.org/stapp.html
The stress would be exactly the same. In physics there is no difference between acceleration and deceleration. They are both considered acceleration when plugged into formulas. As far as Gforce records. From what I have heard, they have recorded 100gs in F1 cars hitting the wall and the drivers lived. I believe it was one of the armed forces that used to test with rocket sleds and they were able to declerate peopple from 100mph in ten feet and the live. Any faster and they went blind and their organs began to liquify.
