Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horsepower

Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by repsilat on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:00PM (#22577729)

If they're only different by a constant factor, then both have the same interesting properties and neither is much more difficult to calculate than the other -- at least for sinusoids.

If something is proportional to one, it's naturally proportional to the other.

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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by uxp100 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:14PM (#22577843)

Almost anyone on this website could answer better than me for this, was always weak in math, but I believe they differ by a constant factor for a sine, but for a more complex waveform they will not (well, the amount they vary by would be different for each waveform).

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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by lvh on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:34PM (#22578018)

It's true that the factor between RMS vs peak-to-peak is different for e.g. a sine vs a sawtooth wave, but for other waveforms its still a constant (just a different one), and for this engine it should be just about a sine wave anyway.

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Re:Koenigsegg’s 2.0-liter no-camshaft engine makes 600 horse... by LeifCarrotson on Saturday March 14, 2020 @08:27PM (#22579924)

Circular motion about a crank produces a precise sinusoidal waveform.

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