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Originally Posted by Saratoga_Mike
Could you please show how to calculate force without knowing mass, using a race example? Also, I understand how to calculate acceleration, but I don't understand what part/all of the race to use?
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I'm kinda rusty since it's been years since Ii studied and tutored Physics but I remember that Force = Mass x Acceleration, so you would need that. I'll have to see how force can be derived without knowing mass. It may be sufficient to just go with an average horses' mass since the change in mass is small and velocity is more important anyway. Maybe there is some relationship with kinetic energy. I'm wondering that since kinetic energy = the mass x velocity squared, the velocity is much more important than mass since it's effect is squared. I remember it's application to sports in showing how the speed (velocity) of a football player is more important than his mass when he tackles you, Similarly, in boxing the speed of a punch is more important than the mass of the fist that hits you.
I just had an idea how the Sartin Methodology uses some sense of kinetic energy when he talks of % energy used early based on velocity. Hmmm.
At this point I'm just thinking out loud theoretically but I'd like to figure out how these concepts can be applied in practice to handicapping. Let me think about this some more.
