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 #1140846  by The EGE
 
I've sent you the spreadsheet. Almost all of the calculations I just described are pretty standard physics; the only oddballs I had to research were the drag and rolling fricition coefficients.

Grades, like rolling resistance, will scale proportional to velocity.