{"id":3019,"date":"2009-06-30T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2009-06-30T03:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T08:00:51","slug":"they-wont-wear-a-leather-outfit-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3019","title":{"rendered":"They Won&#039;t Wear a Leather Outfit, Either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/2009\/06\/25\/why-a-greyhound-or-a-racehorse-doesnt-pop-a-wheelie\/\">Why a Greyhound or a Racehorse Doesn\u2019t \u201cPop a Wheelie\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ability to gain speed quickly is crucial for survival, but there\u2019s a limit as to how rapidly an animal can accelerate. Researchers wondered whether the \u201cwheelie\u201d problem experienced by cars during a drag race could be a factor in four-legged animals\u2019 ability to speed up. They came up with a simple mathematical model\u2026 to see how fast a quadruped could accelerate without tipping over backward. The model predicts that the longer the back is in relation to the legs, the less likely a dog is to flip over and the faster it can accelerate. Then the researchers tested the model by going down to the local track, London\u2019s Walthamstow Stadium, and video-recording individual greyhounds as they burst out of the gate in time trials. The acceleration approached\u2013but never exceeded\u2013the limit predicted by the model<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why a Greyhound or a Racehorse Doesn\u2019t \u201cPop a Wheelie\u201d The ability to gain speed quickly is crucial for survival, but there\u2019s a limit as to how rapidly an animal can accelerate. Researchers wondered whether the \u201cwheelie\u201d problem experienced by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3019\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}