Speed and Velocity

Glenn Elert

Resources

Animals
- Speed of Animals. InfoPlease Kid's Almanac. Original source: Natural History Magazine (March 1974).
- Snails
  - Ready, steady, escargot. BBC (10 December 1999).
  - Sidney the snail races to victory in world championships. Heidi Blake. The Telegraph (19 July 2010).
  - World Snail Racing
- World cell race
  - The first World Cell Race. Paolo Maiuri, et al. Current Biology. Vol. 22 No. 17 (11 September 2012): R673-R675.
  - World Cell Race 2012
  - World Cell Race 2013
  - World Cell Race 2014
Galileo Galilei
- Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze. Galileo Galilei (1638).
- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences. Galileo Galilei. Translated from the Italian and Latin into English by Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio. New York: Macmillan (1914).
Planes
- Concorde
  - Celebrating Concorde. British Airways.
  - concordesst.com. Self-proclaimed "Definitive Concorde aircraft site on the internet".
Trains
- InterCity Express (ICE)
  - ICE high-speed train.Eurail.
  - InterCityExpress (ICE)/InterCity-NeiTech (ICT). Tobias Benjamin Köhler. Railfan Europe.
- Train à grande vitesse (TGV)
  - tgv.com. Redirects to a page on sncf.com.
  - Record du monde de vitesse TGV 574,8 : 2007 (version intégrale). SNCF. YouTube (2012).
  - France 2 coverage of record setting run (3 April 2007). Extrêmement spectaculaire!
    - tgv speed record at 574.8kmh - 357.16mph. Posted to YouTube by youhoudotfr.
    - new TGV speed record, 574,8 km/h!!!! Posted to Dailymotion by trantuanviet.
  - Au cœur de l'exploit. RFF, Alstom, SNCF coverage of record setting run (2007). Commentary dubbed into English.
    - 574,8 Km/h World rail speed record 2007. Posted to Dailymotion by V150_.
- Transrapid (dissolved in 2008)
- Shanghai maglev train (上海磁浮示范运营线)
  - Shanghai Maglev Transportation Development Company
- Shinkansen (新幹線)
  - About the Shinkansen. Central Japan Railway Company.
Automobiles
- Data
  - DragTimes.com
    - drag racing time slips
    - dynamometer graphs
  - Sport Compact Car. This magazine ceased publication in 2009.
    - Road Test Summary From the April, 2009 issue of Modified Mag.
- Experimental
  - Bloodhound SSC. The car that intends to go faster than 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h).
  - JCB Dieselmax. World's fastest diesel car (563.418 km/h). Website vanished in 2012.
  - North American Eagle
  - Thrust SSC. World's fastest car (1,228 km/h).
- Street legal
  - Larson Race Cars. Larry Larson. 1998 Chevy S10 pickup truck.
    - Larry Larson 5.95 @ 244mph. Scott Clark (2014). In car video with data overlay at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
    - Quickest & Fastest Street Car in the World! Larry Larson runs 5.95 @ 244mph. That Racing Channel (2014).
  - Red Victor 1 Racing. Andy Frost. 1972 Vauxhall Victor.
    - Fifth Gear. Season 10, Episode 4 (2006).
    - Fifth Gear. Season 12, Episode 5 (2007).
    - Gone in 5 Seconds - Red Victor 2015
  - Search for Speed. A search for the top 100 fastest street legal cars in the world.
Track & field
- Results
  - World Athletics, formerly known as the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
  - International Olympic Committee (IOC)
- Research
  - Athletics: Momentous sprint at the 2156 Olympics? Andrew J. Tatem, Carlos A. Guerra, Peter M. Atkinson & Simon I. Hay. Nature. Vol. 431 No. 525 (30 September 2004). Women sprinters are closing the gap on men and may one day overtake them.
  - Will women outpace men in 2156? Helen Pearson. news @ nature.com (29 September 2004).
Miscellaneous
- Faster Than Sound. NOVA.
- Warby Motorsport. Ken Warby, the world's fastest man on water.
- Mouse Velocity Experiment. Brian Jones. Little Shop of Physics. Colorado State University.
- Voyager Mission Status. JPL. NASA.
- World Pro Speed Ski Racing Organization
Video on demand
- Speed and Velocity. They Might Be Giants (2009).