Month: April 2016

Can Science Shorten (or Eliminate) Rain Delays?

2016-04-15 dr. diandra 1

While we were waiting for the track to dry at Texas last Saturday, I tweeted a link to my post on why track drying takes so long and how high humidity extends drying time — even with […]

Energy

Conservation of Energy in a Crash

2016-04-08 dr. diandra 0

Last week on SiriusXM Speedway, we talked about how the kinetic energy of a race car (at 190 mph) is approximately equal to the caloric energy contained in two dark chocolate Easter bunny rabbits. The […]

Energy

Comparing the Kinetic Energy of a NASCAR Race Car to… Candy?

2016-04-01 dr. diandra 1

One of the challenges in explaining things is figuring out how to put something very unfamiliar in more familiar terms. You may not know what a Joule per second is, but you know what a […]