Re: New work on running biomech by Hutchinson

[Amtoine Grant <ajgrant@eastlink.ca>]

On Friday, September 10, 2004, at 10:47  AM, Jordan Mallon wrote:

> > From: Amtoine Grant <ajgrant@eastlink.ca>
>
> > I'm not keen on exactly what a Froude or MOR number is, so basically 
> > what I'd like to know is why would it be multiplied by 3.6 for the 
> > adult Tyrannosaur?
>
> Well, Dr. Holtz already explained what the Froude number was (Fr = 
> v^2/gh) in a previous post.  MOR simply refers to a specimen at the 
> Museum of the Rockies, in this case, a _T. rex_ specimen.  And 3.6 is 
> simply a conversion factor used to go from m/s to km/h:
> m/s x 1km/1000m x 3600s/1h = 3.6

Okay. I've just skimmed through this discussion and I don't think the 
actual m/s figure has been mentioned for T-Rex, just a mention of 
Froude 17(I think). So what were the m/s figures for Coelophysis, 
Compsognathus, Dilophosaurus, Allosaurus, Velociraptor & Archaeopteryx?