Hi Ronny,
Thank you for posting those pictures. That's a nice setup you have there.
Looks easy enough to make but would be a whole new project deciphering results!
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Originally Posted by SlowOne
My point exactly - you can scale the size and weight but you can't scale the Laws of Physics. All these phenomena are present in full-size cars, gas turbines, etc.
Scale is an easily defined word, it means to use numbers to measure or compare the level of something. In that sense, we can scale everything that we do in modeling and make comparisons. However, it doesn't work that well when things start to move. However, you can't say there is no comparison since, if there weren't, none of the experiments above would be worth doing!!
The last time I looked a whippet was about 20" tall and a greyhound about 28", so hardly half-scale. And, according to Science Daily, their high athletic ability is probably due to a genetic mutation. Apart from that, great analogy!!  |
I would like to apologise to any disgruntled whippets.