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Invisible wrote:
> OK, so here's one for you...
>
> If I put my car into top gear and set the engine to 3,500 revolutions
> per minute, my car travels forward at almost exactly 75 miles per hour.
> So... how far forward does it travel for a single revolution of the
> engine??
574643.
the "almost" you told, neither tires wearing nor possible sliding.
> Similarly, at that speed my car achieves roughly 50 miles per gallon of
> fuel. So how much fuel does it inject into each cylinder??
None.
> [My car has a four-cylinder, four-stroke internal compustion engine, and
> is normally-asperated. And runs on petrol, in case that wasn't obvious.
> Presumably the timing is therefore set so that exactly one cylinder
> fires for every revolution of the engine.]
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