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Old 10-Mar-2005, 01:21
Bj.O.rn Bj.O.rn is offline
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Originally posted by Shazaam!
Sorry, you're right of course. The clutch turns once for every two revolutions of the flywheel so it stores four times less kinetic energy (I x omega-squared) given the roughly same diameters, pound-for-pound. Thanks.

Sorry, I just could not resist.. hehe. But you are right about the cinetic energy, I never thought about it in that way before.. (I better dig out the physics books from school)
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