Speed limit

started a few weeks ago. Speed walking out of the Mott campus in Lapeer, I was eager…

Raindrops break the speed limit Did you know that raindrops have speed limits of their own? Raindrops that are larger than 0.5 millimeters when going across fall with a terminal velocity of several meters per second, while smaller drops fall slower with a terminal velocity of less than one meter per second. Terminal Velocity is when friction cancels the downward pull of gravity. This means that the raindrops speed up and keep falling at a steady pace. Michael Larsen, an atmospheric…

never predict what is going to happen while you are driving. Speed limits are posted for the safety of the driver and the pedestrians. City limits are twenty-five miles per hour due to the streets being well populated. The faster you go, the less control you have over your car, a kid or a dog could walk out in the middle of…

Furious: Freeway Cop Stops Scooter Driver, 89” there was an elderly woman (age 89) driving her mobility scooter on the Austrian autobahns that has a speed limit of 81 miles per hour. This occurred in Mainz, Germany on a Sunday afternoon. However, after seeing cars coming in the opposite direction, she turned around and drove in the emergency lane at a maximum speed of six miles per hour in the right direction for two miles. Luckily, the police caught up on the highway and escorted her back home.…

legal counsel. The driver did not want to cooperate and it was a big struggle to get a proper breath sample after that (Took 5 tries to get two samples that were the legal 15 minutes apart). At the end of it, the driver blew more than twice the legal limit and went to a cell. Smith and the other officers kept their composure and did not give the driver any counsel except for how to access it. I expected them to act like professionals and that is what they…

negotiation, disturbance rejection and turning are all examples of behavior that require modulation of walking speed which is in turn driven by transient changes in muscle activations. A few studies in recent years have explored characteristics of transient walking [1], [2], [3]. It has been suggested that control of speed works through modulation of braking and propulsive impulses and to increase speed subjects change the braking impulse more than the propulsive one [2]. However, none of these…

have on the entire ride. Following after that, they will plummet down the hill. As a consequence, they will experience the feeling of weightlessness, free fall, huge amounts of kinetic energy, and air resistance. The drop gives you an instantaneous speed of 56 miles per hour. This is also where you reach your terminal velocity. As you are falling, you will feel as if you are only being held down by gravity, which in fact, you are.…

dragonfly. The size of this dragonfly is above the average size for the genus. Each of the four wings of this dragonfly can move independently and are powered by powerful muscles. The wings normally beat 35 times per second and propel the dragonfly to speeds of 35 miles per hour. Dragonflies have a visual field of almost 360 degrees. The legs of dragonflies are not able to walk. The Warpaint Emerald Dragonfly is about 49-50 mm long in adults. The abdomen is approximately 38-47 mm and, the…

“A 16-year-old girl was killed during her first drive alone when she veered in front of an oncoming tractor trailer while she sent a text”(“Tragedy” 1). This was stated on the Daily Mall newspaper about a girl named Savannah Nash. Despite being sad and gruesome, accidents like this happen every day. The amount of deaths caused by car accidents in Ga for 2013 was 1,179. That three deaths a day or twenty-two a week. These statistics show that in the course of five years 5,895 people would die.…

The U.S is the known as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the U.S has one of the slowest and most expensive internet speeds. Japan, whose internet bandwidth averages 81 Megabytes per second (MBPS) is very cheap at $0.40 per MBPS compared to the pricey and slow internet speeds of the U.S at 15 MBPS for $5.66 per MBPS. That is almost six times slower and 14 times more expensive than Japan. There are many possible solutions ranging from expensive options such as…