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07-11-2007, 12:02 PM
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Drives: '07 3 Door Yaris of Doom! Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Miller Motorsports Park
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You are comparing the amount of energy while driving at 60 mph, not the amount of energy it took to actually accelerate the extra 20 pounds of wheels. Also you didn't factor the rotational weight effects. You just treated the wheels as a non independent part of a mass that is the car.
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