The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #125181   Message #2771165
Posted By: Paul Burke
22-Nov-09 - 12:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: Another new steam loco!
Subject: RE: BS: Another new steam loco!
You can't measure acceleration in mph, that's a speed. Try miles per square hour!

A quick confurble makes 17.8m/s about 40mph, and the acceleration about seven and a half million miles per hour per hour, or 0-60 in thirty thousandths of a second.