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I was thinking about fish and other animals that swim by producing a traveling wave. Tuna fish swim very fast and need to overcome vortexes they create,so it seems to me that,when considering the power expended versus speed efficiency ratio of fish,fast swimming ones and slow moving ones,who are are of equal size and produce traveling waves that are equal except for speed,the fast moving fish suffer when compared to the slow moving fish.If represented graphically, speed would be the x axis and power expended to reach that speed would be the y axis.The points plotted would be efficiency of the fish's movement,and the curve be exponential,although there would be drop off after a while.I think. Am I right? How would that graph look? I'd file this under biomechanics or maybe fluid dynamics, but I couldn't find either listed as a area of science. Biomechanics even came up as a misspelling.I just put other.Do slow moving fish swim more efficiently than fish who swim really fast? Thank you.
Re: Do slow moving fish swim more efficiently than fish who swim really fast?
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