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can someone please explain to me why time is scaled down (sped up) by a factor that is equal to the square root of the factor by which length is scaled down. | can someone please explain to me why time is scaled down (sped up) by a factor that is equal to the square root of the factor by which length is scaled down. | ||
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| + | I think that may be an error. In part of the description it mentions "every 2 seconds in the model it would be every 10 seconds in the full sized version" but later reverses the order of model Vs. real. I'm pretty sure the correct version is that the model moves faster than real life because a larger object would have to take more time to move a greater distance, so slow down the small model to replicate the larger version. [[User:DM8954|DM8954]] | ||
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Good stuff. Heath 01:02, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
can someone please explain to me why time is scaled down (sped up) by a factor that is equal to the square root of the factor by which length is scaled down.
I think that may be an error. In part of the description it mentions "every 2 seconds in the model it would be every 10 seconds in the full sized version" but later reverses the order of model Vs. real. I'm pretty sure the correct version is that the model moves faster than real life because a larger object would have to take more time to move a greater distance, so slow down the small model to replicate the larger version. DM8954
