[Hennybogan]

Believe it or not- there are entry requirements:
1) You must be able to give out abuse- mostly with a dash of humor and/or sarcasm
2) You need to be able to take abuse
3) You needed to sit in the back of the class when you were in school- if you never made it to class - that's even better!
4) And the final requirement- IQ has to be below 50.

In regards to thrust versus speed. This gets a little deep and many factors need to be taken into account- so you're question is a good one and I might need to think about this in more detail as opposed to picking my nose. But just on this specific topic of thrust/acceleration versus speed- unrelated to the golf swing- just the mechanical features- let's clarify.

You have to view it like this on my boat- if you fire more than one engine at a time i.e. overlap them- then you have more thrust. Unless your race is short- you won't be able to maintain the thrust- because as the boat speeds up there is a point that the power of the engines won't be able to maintain the acceleration rate and you'll lose the lag pressure. (That's why when I've got Bucket on the skis as I'm accelerating and he falls- I don't slow down or cut the rope even when everyone in the boat is yelling- that would reduce my lag and drag- sorry off topic.)

In regards to creating the highest speed- if you hit any one engine hard and keep it full throttle- the boat will get up to 200 mph but that takes 1 hour and the gas tank only allows for 15 minutes of running time- then if you sequence the engines you can create more speed.

So back to golf- if you accelerate #4 hard- you'll never be able to maintain that acceleration rate for #4 through impact- but if you fire #4 to get up to a certain speed, then when #4 can't keep up, you fire #1, and so on- you can develop more speed because you've created a longer runway.

2-M-2 Power regulation ties into this concept - If it was me - I'd correlate & study the 6-M and 2-M-2 sections and then any relevant cross references - to clarify the concept or come up with more questions.

I'm off to Kinko's - going to blow up Bucket's comment "Good Post" and have it framed for my office wall.

P.S. UppnDownn- Don't worry - we'll get our revenge with the Bucket- with some help from the team - we'll be tying him up this time and he'll be taking those moon pies and RC cola's in against his will!!!! I don't care how it's done!!! He could take a lot - Let's have at least 48 of each. NUKE- buy the moon pies! Neil- you are in charge of the RC colas -make the purchase! No need to keep them refridgerated! It's going to be one hell of a party boys!

SO we decide a have a race between a number of boat operators. They all get the same boat, engines, and amount of gas. We know that the running full out burns the gas faster. Let's say we don't have to issue each engine the same amount--we just have to stay within our quota.

As a condition of the race, we will stipulate that the end of the race occurs well before the distance that would require running each engine a moderate speed until just before it runs out of fuel and then kicking in the next one. So we don't need to use the least overlap. Say the race is a third that long.

Say that we have a bunch of really competetive boys. Some of the boys might risk running out of gas once in a while if they could win more races. What stategy of firing engines would win the race?

Bucket--none of that NASCAR tweaking of the hull design, changing the internals of the engine, or changing cup and pitch on the props.


HB