Can anyone explain to me how much resistance water creates while swimming? Is there a equivalent in pounds? or is there another way it is measured? If found a site that explains fluid dynamics, but I'm looking for a simpler explanation.
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And that is why streamlining is so important. Using 0.5 for the drag coefficient was a total guess, by the way. A swimmer in a good streamline probably has a lower drag coefficient than that.
I would guess so. Even bad swimmer might.
A 150 lbs swimmer pushes off the wall at 15 ft/sec and 25 lbs resistance would stop him in 7.5 yards
That's with the silly over simplification that the drag doesn't change with speed. I could probably do the caluculus with the drag coeeficients and all, but I'm WAY too lazy.
Where's that 17 year old college junior?
And that is why streamlining is so important. Using 0.5 for the drag coefficient was a total guess, by the way. A swimmer in a good streamline probably has a lower drag coefficient than that.
I would guess so. Even bad swimmer might.
A 150 lbs swimmer pushes off the wall at 15 ft/sec and 25 lbs resistance would stop him in 7.5 yards
That's with the silly over simplification that the drag doesn't change with speed. I could probably do the caluculus with the drag coeeficients and all, but I'm WAY too lazy.
Where's that 17 year old college junior?
