Estimated Jump Distance Calculator

Started by gregghealy, Jun 20 2004 06:30 PM
23 replies to this topic

  • gregghealy

Posted 20 June 2004 - 06:30 PM

#1


http://66.120.145.229/jump_calculator/

This is a little calculator thing I posted on the MX forum. It shows how far an unpropelled object will travel (roughly) when flung off a jump face into the air.

Fore some reason I thought this was worth spending 4 hours on today... The good thing I found out in my research is that weight makes no difference on how far an object will travel in the air. Heavier bikes just carry more inertia into the next turn.

DISCLAIMER: I cannot be held responsible for any casing, overshot or missed table, double, root or any other obsticle or misscalculation. Im a bike rider and a fisherman, not a physics professor or a bouncer at a strip club.

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  • kawidual

Posted 20 June 2004 - 07:26 PM

#2

Cool little calc Greg... :thumbsup:

Ill have to print up a few calculations, take them to some jumps, and try not to endo.

  • tc129tc

Posted 20 June 2004 - 09:02 PM

#3

WOW! Thats pretty cool! :thumbsup:

  • Knopey

Posted 21 June 2004 - 04:40 PM

#4

Cool! :devil: So I can hit a 60 degree face at 100mph and land 546 feet away :thumbsup: Well, I could do it once anyway...

  • wolf_child

Posted 21 June 2004 - 04:49 PM

#5

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Cool! :awww: So I can hit a 60 degree face at 100mph and land 546 feet away :devil: Well, I could do it once anyway...

But if you hit the 40deg. face you would travel 622 ft. Thats over 2 football fields(207.33~yds.) :thumbsup:

  • kitplummer

Posted 21 June 2004 - 04:52 PM

#6

Pretty cool. You need it to spit out gear and throttle turn though...

  • Knopey

Posted 21 June 2004 - 06:36 PM

#7

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But if you hit the 40deg. face you would travel 622 ft. Thats over 2 football fields(207.33~yds.) :thumbsup:

Yeah but you wouldn't go quite so high, so you wouldn't be quite so squashed afterwards. Still plenty squashed enough though....

  • gregghealy

Posted 21 June 2004 - 07:50 PM

#8

Thanks. I am actually shocked it worked at all...and the really funny part is I completely understand the physics and calculations behind it. Old guys can learn math...

  • prairiedawg

Posted 21 June 2004 - 07:53 PM

#9

Gregg how much will be left of you after the landing? :awww: :thumbsup: :devil:

  • rookie517

Posted 21 June 2004 - 07:54 PM

#10

i think they miss out a very important factor, that is preloading the bike, on a smooth gradual jump, if ya preload it alot, the bike will jump higher instead of further.

  • Rebooting_Wacko

Posted 22 June 2004 - 03:42 AM

#11

That's really cool Greg. I'm assuming you're a programmer? Me too. What did you use to build it?

  • Redrodent

Posted 22 June 2004 - 07:43 AM

#12

So technically, my DRZ and I leave the jump along side Robby Kenevil matching his speed, I'd make it? That is, if he makes it :thumbsup: Cool! Better than tandem parachuting.

  • gregghealy

Posted 22 June 2004 - 11:58 AM

#13

If you left the same jump face as a XR50 at the same speed you would go the same distance. Be careful out there...

It was built with Filemaker Pro on OSX, and html obviously... Low-budget.

  • trav

Posted 22 June 2004 - 12:34 PM

#14

how about a "suck factor"? Like as in how bad I suck at jumps (bad, terrible, etc.). That has to play in jumping distance/height/etc.

  • tc129tc

Posted 22 June 2004 - 12:55 PM

#15

That would be cool if it told you how high you would go...

  • Knopey

Posted 22 June 2004 - 05:09 PM

#16

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So technically, my DRZ and I leave the jump along side Robby Kenevil matching his speed, I'd make it? That is, if he makes it :devil: Cool! Better than tandem parachuting.

It doesn't say that you'd land on your wheels :thumbsup:

  • gregghealy

Posted 22 June 2004 - 05:23 PM

#17

The suck factor is already there unfortunately. Its the end of the MPH scale I seem to be in. 40 foot table, im going 1/2 to 2/3 across off a 40° face. Im going slow (20-25mph?, seriously what a sissy!).

I suck, and my brain knows it. It wont let my wrist turn far enough to get that extra speed, yet. Im trying to convince it to let me free when I get springs.

Im working on the height info now.

  • 0honda

Posted 27 January 2012 - 03:40 PM

#18

The link doesnt work.....
:bonk: darn

  • Davenjw

Posted 27 January 2012 - 10:26 PM

#19

View Post0honda, on 27 January 2012 - 03:40 PM, said:

The link doesnt work.....
:bonk: darn

seriously? this thread is almost 8 years old!

  • 0honda

Posted 28 January 2012 - 06:55 PM

#20

So? it deserved a bump.....if only the link worked



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