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  • Are you sure about that? From m/s to km/h you multiply by 3600 (for the time) and divide by 1000 (for the distance) which leads to a factor of 3.6.

    Personally i always remember 25 m/s = 90 km/h = 56 mph because of the somewhat round numbers.

  • Sooooo, wavelengths (λ) become longer when something moves away (redshift) and become shorter when something moves towards you (blueshift).

    For a red flag (λ0=610nm) to become a green flag (λ1=549nm), it has to move towards you quite fast. But how fast is 'quite fast'?

    Using the formula

    flag_velocity / speed of light (c) = difference in wavelengths / starting wavelength

    we get

    flag_velocity = (610-549) / 610 * c = 61 / 610 * c = 1/10 * c

    This means: the flag has to move with about c/10 = 30 000 000 m/s = 108 000 000 km/h = 67 108 100 mph. Yeah, that's quite fast.

    (Disclaimer:

    1. use info on own risk
    2. values for λ were chosen in a way to make calculations easy. There is no info on what shade of red or green the flag is. The final result will be about the same.
    3. With speeds at around 10% of c, I should use the formula considering the relativistic doppler effect... However, i wont. Thanks.)
  • Sooooo, wavelengths (λ) become longer when something moves away (redshift) and become shorter when something moves towards you (blueshift).

    For a red flag (λ0=610nm) to become a green flag (λ1=549nm), it has to move towards you quite fast. But how fast is 'quite fast'?

    Using the formula

    flag_velocity / speed of light (c) = difference in wavelengths / starting wavelength

    we get

    flag_velocity = (610-549) / 610 * c = 61 / 610 * c = 1/10 * c

    This means: the flag has to move with about c/10 = 30 000 000 m/s = 108 000 000 km/h = 67 108 100 mph. Yeah, that's quite fast.

    (Disclaimer:

    1. use info on own risk
    2. values for λ were chosen in a way to make calculations easy. There is no info on what shade of red or green the flag is. The final result will be about the same.
    3. With speeds at around 10% of c, I should use the formula considering the relativistic doppler effect... However, i wont. Thanks.)
  • Unfortunately your explanation is wrong: the reason why satellites in low earth orbit fall back to earth is, that in those heights (about 500km above earths surface) the thin remaining atmosphere creates drag and slow the satellites down.

    About gravity: gravity is the reason, why satellites even stay in orbit and keep circling the earth. Without gravity, all the satellites would just fly away.

  • Let's see:

    They are going at about 315 km/h when crossing the line (for laziness reasons we ignore speed differences and speed changes...).

    315 kilometes per hour is the same as 87.5 meters per second - so every second they are traveling 87.5 meters.

    Multiplying the speed with the time gaps, we get:

    VER: 87.5 × 0.013 = 1.14 meters

    LEC: 87.5 × 0.067 = 5.86 meters

    RUS: 87.5 × 0.377 = 33 meters

    PER: 87.5 × 0.394 = 33.48 meters

    Some other guidelines:

    The diameter of an F1 tyre is about 0.72 meters.

    An F1 car is about 5.5 meters long.

    Grid slots are 8 meters (to the next one diagonally) or 16 meters (to the next one behind) apart. Two grid rows behind equals to 32 meters behind.

    Make your own conclusions with this information!

    Personally I think it's quite accurate.

  • The actual unit is lower case, the multiplier is uppercase.

    Wouldn't agree with that... There are many different units and multipliers. the letter being uppercase or lowercase has nothing to do with it.

    Examples:

    letters for prefixes/multipliers being uppercase and lowercase: P, T, G, M, k, h, da, d, c, m, u, n (trillion, billion, million, thousand, hundred, ten, one tenth, one hundredth, one thousandth, one millionth, one billionth)

    Letters for units being uppercase and lowercase: s, m, g, N, W, J, A, K, V, h, Hz (seconds, meter, gram, Newton, Watt, Joule, Ampere, Kelvin, Volt, hour, Hertz) (just recognised, that most units, which are named after scientists, are written with capital letters...)

    km = thousand meters/kilometer

    K = Kelvin (unit for temperature)

    M = Mega (prefix for one million)

    kJ = thousand joules

    s = second

    ms = millisecond (one thousandth)

    S = siemens (electrical conductivity)

    mS = milli siemens

    mm = millimeter (one thousandth of a meter)

    Mm = megameter (one million meters or thousand kilometers)

  • I didn't crunch the numbers, but as far as I see, most of the linux growth comes from the Steam deck, which runs a Linux OS.

    This could also be the reason for the decrease of OSX, because more other, non classical computer, devices are included, which automatically reduces the share of Laptop and PC devices.

  • I am still standing by this.

    Although it is more and more probable with each race, and max and RB are totally capable of achieving the perfect season, it only takes one unfortunate turn of events to end this streak.

    In the end we will see, how it turns out.