Good morning to someone out there somewhere. ...
With the rain potential today, I'm sitting here with my first coffee trying to decide if I'm heading out to Port Royal or not, and reading through your writing. You wrote something which again was interesting and brought to me the comment which follows.
"So we have to be careful when we compare how a Sprint car works to how a kart works."
After reading it again I started to think about making the comparison. I knew somehow I had to be comparing the two, but I didn't feel I was usually if ever directly making the comparison. But I must do it.
I'm going to say I don't usually if ever directly compare the two too each other. What I compare each of them to is a picture I have in my mind of each working on a track.
I see them each alone on the same track in my mind. I can see an image of a kart on the track and see its interaction with the track. I can also do the same for a sprint car. But I never have been able to view how one compares to the other. I think it's like this. I can think of a worn gear and I can think of a brand new gear, but I can't think of them next to each other. Well yes I guess I can, I just did it while writing this, but it doesn't matter.
I'm trying to say I don't make comparisons between each type of LTO which races. I look at each in terms of their own ability to operate, close to what I consider ideal. If I had two levers one longer and one shorter and I wanted to know about each and how each could be used. I'd study each and learn how it could be used to do what needs done. It's much more important to know what needs done and if what your using will get the job done, then to spend time comparing a long lever to a short lever.
If I'm interested in the speed of how something is operated by the lever, I'm going to bring in factors of lever length and power. If the short lever is used, length and power will be different then if the long lever is used. But each can cause the same resulting speed. I think I can now compare the two objectives of getting to an ideal operation with a LTO and getting to a speed by a lever. I look at what's needed for a LTO to get to the ideal, the same as I would look at what's needed to get a lever to a speed. I see speed as a physical happening with a lever, similar to seeing the ideal of LTO operation, as a physical happening on the track. One is just a little more complex.
... This thunkin and writing what's on my mind is fun. ...
only thing it's not necessairly correct.
paul