Calc Keys to the Kingdom - Drowned Wednesday's kinetic energy

Calculations
"A monstrous white whale. A stupendous whale! One-hundred twenty-six miles from tail to head, and thirty-two miles in width, with a mouth when open that is two miles high and ten miles wide." - Drowned Wednesday
A leviathan of this size would gnerate immense energy just by swimming. Drowned Wednesday is compared to a larger Earth whale.
‘Drowned Wednesday in her Leviathan form is not just an overgrown Earth whale,’ said Monckton. ‘But she has some similarities with the larger types - Drowned Wednesday
Female blue whales grow up to 33m long and weigh 120 tons (120,000kg). 126 miles is 202.777344km, or 202777.344m, and 32 miles is 51.499008km, or 51499.008m.
M2 = (H2/H1)^3*M1
= (202777.344/33)^3*120,000
= 2.78418262e16kg
In physics, Archimedes’s principle says that any fluid exerts a buoyant force on an object wholly or partially submerged in it, and the magnitude of the buoyant force equals the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. An object that’s less dense than water floats because the water it displaces weighs more than the object does.
So let's look at how much water got displaced.
For speed, we need distance and time, and we have both those things.
"Hey!" Arthur shouted. "You said Wednesday was going to be in human form!"

"She will be. She eats tons of fish and krill until the last moment, to satisfy her hunger. You see the ship in front of her?"

Arthur peered down. He could see a tiny brown fleck at least a hundred miles ahead of the vast white whale. It was like a speck of dust on the floor, with a commercial cleaner's mop heading straight for it.

"Yes!"

"Milady has already begun to reduce, and will be fully in human form by the time she reaches it." - Drowned Wednesday
It took 30 minutes for her to shrink down.
It started with the sea level dropping four fathoms for half an hour yesterday. - Drowned Wednesday
And as said above, when she shrinks down, the sea level drops for half an hour.

T = 160.9344km/30 min
= 89.40800m/s

Finally, we find our kinetic energy.

KE = (0.5)mv^2
= (0.5) X 2.78418262e16 X 89.40800^2
= 26.596764340344169142 gigatons.

Final Results
Drowned Wednesdays kinetic energy = 26.597 gigatons
Drowned Wednesdays swimming speed = >89.408m/s

Comments

There are no comments to display.

Blog entry information

Author
Stocking Anarchy
Read time
1 min read
Views
294
Last update

More entries in The Outskirts Battledome (OBD)

More entries from Stocking Anarchy

Share this entry

Back
Top