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Engine power plotted against maximum speed for four makes of automobiles. The diagonal is steep because power increases as the third power of the speed. To go twice as fast requires an 8-fold increase in engine power. [Reproduced with permission from ref. 6. (Copyright 1992 and 1996, Henk Tennekes. Reprinted by permission of MIT Press.)]
