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Default How close do you have to be to benefit from drafting


"On a bike, the force due to wind resistance increases with the square
of the
velocity. "

Would this be true for different atomospheric pressures? Is this a
rough rule of thumb? I dont see how there can be such a tidy formula
for something as variable as air. what if air was replaced by carbon
dioxide.

 
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