View Single Post
Old 08-13-2010, 09:17 AM   #18
infernosg
IT'S ALIVE!
 
infernosg's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 811
Rep Power: 16
infernosg is on a distinguished road
^^^ Aerospace Engineering, but isn't engineering just the application of mathematics/physics?

Moment = torque. Inertia is something entirely different, but I'm sure you know that. The only reason you have to give it more gas to get the car going is because it takes a certain amount of energy to get a 2900 lb car moving. Mass and rotational speed are independent, directly proportional variables of that energy so if you decrease one, you have to increase the other.
infernosg is offline   Reply With Quote