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EpicTiger87 (talk) 23:07, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

You are threatening to ban me...

You are threatening to ban me for what I consider no legitimate reason. Just for the record why are these participants, in the threads you consider inappropriate, allowed to have no account pages? Selbram, DrPhysics999, UndarkHorse and why are they being allowed to claim they have the power to ban me from this site? Draft Physics (talk) 14:33, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

@Draft Physics: banning is a community decision. It would be an unusual case if the target of the ban agreed with the ban. I do not understand what you mean by "no account pages". It is obvious that this is a continuation of a dispute from elsewhere on the internet and other editors have followed you here (please do not link the source, I don't care and there are WP:OUTING concerns). Don't worry about those other editors, worry about your own actions. Recapping the issue that could result in a block to stop the disruption: Wikipedia is a tertiary source. It is not a forum for you to promote your pet theory that every introductory physics textbook from the last 300 years has been wrong. VQuakr (talk) 18:55, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

I do not understand what you mean by "no account pages".

When I click on their names I get a page that says:

Wikipedia does not have a user page with this exact name. In general, this page should be created and edited by the user UndarkHorse. If in doubt, please verify that the user account "UndarkHorse" exists. Draft Physics (talk) 21:53, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

It is not a forum for you to promote your pet theory that every introductory physics textbook from the last 300 years has been wrong.

Your accusations regarding what I'm doing here would have more credibility if you would answer the simple question?

Do you sincerely believe it takes 100 times the energy to spin a motor 10 times as fast? Draft Physics (talk) 22:24, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

(Slight TPS)

Per Rotational_energy:

$${\begin{aligned}E_{1}&={\tfrac {1}{2}}I\omega ^{2}\\E_{2}&={\tfrac {1}{2}}I(10\omega )^{2}\\&=100{\tfrac {1}{2}}I\omega ^{2}\\&=100\ E_{1}\end{aligned}}$$

- DVdm (talk) 22:40, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

You're not who needs to answer the question, and I would kind of prefer a more direct yes or no answer, but thanks providing input. If you don't mind to follow up question? Have you ever seen in real life it take 100 times the energy to spend a motor 10 times as fast? Draft Physics (talk) 22:58, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

spin a motor Draft Physics (talk) 22:59, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Draft Physics: No, I haven't, and in the same real life, I have never climbed a 10 stories building and stepped over the edge of the roof to verify whether gravitation actually has an influence on me. - DVdm (talk) 23:36, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

I have (the flywheel, not the roof). First semester physics lab like 2 weeks in. Spin up a wheel to different speeds, bring to a halt with a thermally insulated brake, measure the temperature increase. Basic, basic stuff. If there were some massive physics conspiracy to hide this information for unknown motives, not only would we have detected it that day, but also all sorts of machines wouldn't work. VQuakr (talk) 23:46, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

I've been arguing this for over 2 years now... I know of at least a dozen people who have tried to find some physical evidence of this experiment. If you could provide a link it would save all of us a lot of grief. Any experiment over 9 times the fuel to go three times as fast would be incredibly helpful. A link to some machine that wouldn't work without the quadratic fuel demand would also be great to see. I find your honest answer bizarrely hard to understand, but thanks for providing it. Draft Physics (talk) 00:18, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm not optimistic about changing your opinion since you seem, in a word, entrenched. I already described an experiment/demonstration I've personally performed that confirmed this obviously factual issue that you are (quite comically) railing against. Another example would be to launch a marble vertically in the air. Twice the velocity (for low velocities in which air resistance is negligible) will result in four times the maximum height reached as the kinetic energy is converted into potential energy against gravity. But you've changed the subject when you talk about "quadratic fuel demand". We were talking about kinetic energy of a spinning object, not ongoing power demand. In most machines, the amount of energy to come up to idle or operating speed is small compared to the energy expended in operation. That means the kinetic energy stored in the rotating equipment is an insignificant portion of the overall fuel consumption (not to mention we get that energy back when, for example, a vehicle coasts to a stop). The fuel consumption of a machine in operation will vary. For example: for deeply subsonic flows drag forces tend to be quadratic, whereas sliding friction and rolling friction forces are typically constant regardless of speed. VQuakr (talk) 02:04, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

@Draft Physics: user pages: that merely means they haven't created their user page (you have not either, and no one is under any obligation to create one).

Yes, the kinetic energy of a spinning object increases quadratically with rotation speed. This is readily experimentally verifiable, and is critical to proper design of things like brakes and flywheels (as in, if this weren't the case these machine components wouldn't work since they were designed using mainstream physics). Please don't try to control who posts to my user talk space. VQuakr (talk) 23:27, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

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