That train will just keep coming. Once such a freight train is going you better get out of the way. The amount of kinetic energy that’s coming towards you is dwarfing compared to a measly tank.
I don’t think your units make sense — kinetic energy has units of energy, but “kg TNT per second” is power (about 4MW). (I think just remove the “every second” and it’s correct?)
A large explosion every second has units of power, not energy. So to me this is suggesting that the train is putting out power equal to its kinetic energy per second. That’s certainly not the case — it implies that the train is powerful enough to accelerate to the speed in 1s, which is definitely not true.
That train will just keep coming. Once such a freight train is going you better get out of the way. The amount of kinetic energy that’s coming towards you is dwarfing compared to a measly tank.
A train of 8000 tons at a velocity of 30 km/h roughly has the kinetic energy of 66.39 kg TNT.
Supposedly 100 kg TNT
I don’t think your units make sense — kinetic energy has units of energy, but “kg TNT per second” is power (about 4MW). (I think just remove the “every second” and it’s correct?)Edit: parent edited comment.
You’re right, but “every second” was meant more as a display of the energy in the train, like a large explosion “every second”. Is that very wrong?
Hmmm, I’m not sure I understand…
A large explosion every second has units of power, not energy. So to me this is suggesting that the train is putting out power equal to its kinetic energy per second. That’s certainly not the case — it implies that the train is powerful enough to accelerate to the speed in 1s, which is definitely not true.
But that’s just my interpretation.
Yeah, I forgot that a large part of the energy is in inertia and not the pulling of the engine.