{"id":276744,"date":"2010-02-04T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/technical-stuff\/74907-help-me-out-10-sec-car-calculations.html"},"modified":"2010-02-04T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:42:09","slug":"help-me-out-with-10-sec-car-calculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/276744","title":{"rendered":"Help me out with 10-sec car calculations !!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hi.<\/p>\n<p>I had this idea to calculate how much power an average car would need to qualify as a 10-second car. But the thing is that my calculations say that a car has to produce 686HP or more to perform as a 10-sec car, which sounds ridiculous. Can anyone help me out ??<\/p>\n<p><b>My calcs<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Distance travelled=1\/4mile=402m. Let&#8217;s assume 400m for the sake of simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>Using s=ut+1\/2at^2, we get a(cceleration)=8m\/s^2<\/p>\n<p>Force=mass*acceleration=1600kg(Assumed to be the average mass of a car)*8m\/s^2=12800N.<\/p>\n<p>Work done=400m*12800N=5120000 J<\/p>\n<p>Power=Work done\/time taken=5120000\/10=512000W=686HP<\/p>\n<p>This is an idealised situation. Taking into account things like friction, drag force etc. etc. I think power required can easily cross 700HP or more.<\/p>\n<p>Is this right ? I mean, does it really take 520KW to power a 10-second car ? That amount could power 100 average homes&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. I had this idea to calculate how much power an average car would need to qualify as a 10-second car. But the thing is that my calculations say that a car has to produce 686HP or more to perform as a 10-sec car, which sounds ridiculous. Can anyone help me out ?? My calcs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}