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Old 8th Aug 2005, 09:30
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DingerX
 
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Actually, assuming an equal deceleration rate, it would require less runway.

consider: a vehicle decelarating from 200 m/s to 0 m/s at 10 m/s (roughly one G) decelaration.

In twenty seconds, it will stop, having travelled 2000 meters.

After ten seconds it will be going 100 m/s and have covered 1500 meters (average speed 150 m/s)

In ten more seconds, it have stopped. In the last ten seconds, it travels 500 meters.


So, in the example given, assuming an equal decelaration rate (which is probably not the case, since wheels tend to skid and hydroplane at higher speeds), it would need something like 1500 more feet.
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