Maths bods - a question please

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Jul 2016
9:50am, 6 Jul 2016
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Nicholls595
Has anyone mentioned the "type" of rain yet? You know that fine rain that wets you through?
Jul 2016
9:53am, 6 Jul 2016
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The Teaboy
There's also the wind vector. Wetness always occurs faster when it's coming in sideways...
Jul 2016
10:23am, 6 Jul 2016
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GordonG
...which was where my question started - cycling fast through the rain was the same in my head as the wind blowing the wetness in!
Jul 2016
10:25am, 6 Jul 2016
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The Teaboy
Wind vector might cancel the effect of cycling or blow it in from a different direction.
Jul 2016
11:01am, 6 Jul 2016
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flanker
oooh, we can now add in some vector maths into the equation :)
Jul 2016
11:09am, 6 Jul 2016
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Wriggling Snake
I would have thought it would involve surface area, wind direction, volume of water falling per second, speed per second and distance, my initial thought would be it would be the same.

On a still day, If he travelled 10 times as fast, he would "hit" ten times as much water, provided it was constant rainfall, Unless his direction of travel was into or away from the wind direction.
Jul 2016
11:16am, 6 Jul 2016
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Heinzster
I would love to contribute but

1. School holidays in Northern Ireland
2. It never rains here 😉
Jul 2016
11:19am, 6 Jul 2016
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Nicholls595
If he walked to school in one of these...

http://www.fetcheveryone.com/gallery-showphoto.php?id=83178
Jul 2016
11:31am, 6 Jul 2016
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GordonG
if you could combine one of those, Nicholls, with a bike then that would be perfect!

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