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[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, thresholdpeople via Synth-diy wrote:
[fuel consumption]
> Wow! Ha that doesn't make sense to me. Why is it squared? Isn't it x
> amount of fluid per y amount of linear distance?

Volume is distance cubed, so volume divided by distance is distance
squared, that is, area.

You can imagine the fuel being laid out in a bead or thin pile ahead of
the vehicle, and the vehicle consumes it as it goes.  Fuel economy can
then be thought of as the cross-sectional area of the pile that it takes
to perfectly supply the vehicle as it moves.

-- 
Matthew Skala
mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca                 People before tribes.
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