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Curve resistance, a Common card
In railway engineering, curve resistance is a part of train resistance, namely the additional rolling resistance a train must overcome when travelling on a curved section of track.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 35
- Power
- 97
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,800
Power 97 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Curve resistance is typically measured in per mille, with the correct physical unit being Newton per kilo-Newton.
- Older texts still use the wrong unit of kilogram-force per tonne.
- Curve resistance depends on various factors, the most important being the radius and the superelevation of a curve.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Curve resistance article was read about 1,800 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 35: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Curve resistance
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Curve resistance (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : jpmueller99 from Shenandoah Valley of VA, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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