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george_tsiros
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set aside that you can't even solve a simple 2 variable system.
george_tsiros
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Quote from lerts :
it gives an imposible solution

which simply means that your analysis is wrong, because we can actually go and use a tetherball and it does not , in fact, behave "impossibly".
george_tsiros
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Quote from xaotik :Rolling is a pretty basic trick for an old dog. Can he stand on two legs or play dead?

he won't have to play dead if he goes on like this.
george_tsiros
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to see if it is the athlon that is the problem, disable vertical sync (options), drop the resolution to 640x480, disable AA (just in case) and see how high the fps go if you have lots of cars on track.

the xp3200 is adequate for lfs. the mx440 not so.
george_tsiros
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jakg, it's the same thing mostly. the only significant change is the dimensions (24cm x 24cm max)
(every motherboard i had was/is uATX)
george_tsiros
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didn't say that.
george_tsiros
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so it is not a bad design...

except that due to the design it needs to be gently warmed up... and down. and not bounced at the rev limiter, which most other engines survive rather happily. and you need to keep it at a precise temperature range. also there is the design flaw of cutting fuel, not spark. and the sandwiching of alloys. plus, the seals are sensitive and it eats fuel like a mofo. plus it burns oil too.

nope, not a bad design.
george_tsiros
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Quote from Shotglass :how so? youd just end up with a slightly ionized potato

something tells me that due to electrostatic forces it would explode rather spectacularly.
george_tsiros
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Quote from Stefani24 :Rhapsody - Emerald Sword



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george_tsiros
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well you can survive the blast... ok... and you might survive the initial shower of radiation...

you will HAVE to get out of the fridge sooner or later though :P
george_tsiros
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Quote from amp88 :Read up on critical mass.

nah. not yet. exams for nuclear physics are not here yet. i have to study other stuff first (that is why i find the comment about reading wikipedia funny )

Quote from amp88 :
I'm not sure what you mean by this, could you explain it a bit more please?

calculate the potential energy if of all the atoms in a medium sized potato, every one in 10^10 has just one electron more... (just the order of magnitude... if you just don't want to do that, let me just say that the (electrostatic) energy that would be contained in that potato would be ****ING RIDICULOUSLY ENORMOUS just with one out of 10000000000 atoms having just one electron more)
george_tsiros
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so it HAS to do with soapboxes
lol

anyway i wrote what i wrote to explain to tristan what i was writing before. no need to get so aggresive. shees
george_tsiros
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you have not studied the tools necessary to question conservation of momentum/energy

explain your experiment clearly and simply, otherwise you are just. plain. wrong.
george_tsiros
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Quote from tristancliffe :I've been thinking that I've not been following you either... Everyone seems to think that a heavier gravity powered car will be quicker over a run than a lighter one, and that just isn't the case.

ok

car on top of hill. it has the same dynamic energy (energy due to its position, i'll call that quantity DE) with any other car of the same weight at the same point. right? no matter how the weight is distributed... (that is, car A (wheels included) = car B (wheels included))

all clear till now?

when both cars go to the bottom of the hill, both cars have lost some energy due to friction. we ignore that for the moment.
now
car A:
kinetic energy due to motion + kinetic energy due to rotation (of wheels) = DE

car B:
kinetic energy due to motion + kinetic energy due to rotation (of wheels) = DE

now... if the wheels in the second car are HEAVIER (which means the actual body of the car is LIGHTER) they need more torque to turn. because they have greater moment of inertia. which means that between the two cars, more energy goes to the wheels of the car B than the energy that goes to the wheels of car A... so in the end, car B has a smaller percentage of the initial DE converted to kinetic energy.
george_tsiros
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it does NOT matter how much you have studied! i have studied WAY more than you, i am a physicist who has studied classical mechanics, analytical dynamics, thermodynamics, quantum thermodynamics, quantum theory, quantum mechanics, modern physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, electromagnetism, electrodynamics, fluid mechanics, special relativity, experiments on most of these and the math that is necessary to understand all of this! (algebra, calculus, partial diffs, diffs, vector calculus, tensors, diff geometry, etcetcetc) and i entered my university with 3rd best grade and a scholarship! but i will not say "oh i am a good scientist! you are wrong because i am a good scientist". that is called "appeal to authority" and it is a logical fallacy. it is just plain wrong.

if you're such a great engineer, explain!

i will not hear this crap from a guy who can't even explain his experiment properly!

it does NOT matter what you say you know IT ONLY MATTERS WHAT YOU EXPLAIN!

EXPLAIN IT! END OF STORY.
george_tsiros
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im not sure im following you here
george_tsiros
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linear motion is transformed into angular momentum when forces are perpendicular to the motion vector

it's called circular motion

about the rest, i will not even start explaining.

you should really really study basic mechanics first, learn how momentum is used and after you have completed the chapters about linear motion, circular motion etc then come back
george_tsiros
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i do not understand a single thing. is there even one out there who understand what this guy is saying? at least roughly?

wtf is a theterball? tetherball? the toy? we are talking about the toy?

rotational speed is not measured in 'm/s'

everything you write is a horrid soup of bad physics

if there is even one out there that can actually make sense of all this... i am willing to hear
george_tsiros
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Quote from BBO@BSR :so what you heard about the 4 grams is complete nonsens.

my knowledge on nuclear physics is somewhat rusty, but of all the 60kg, i think that if 4g of it is in fact radioactive, it is enough to start a chain reaction.

something along the lines that even if 1 in 10^10 atoms was charged by just one electron more, even a potato would explode fiercely
george_tsiros
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Quote from tristancliffe :I'm really confused.

Gravity is the same for all masses - 9.81m/s/s. More mass = more force but same acceleration (for a given amount of drag).

for the same reason that a 700kg race car that has as much mass as possible closest to its center of mass, is faster than a 700kg race car that has its mass spread out.

smaller moment of inertia.

when a car goes down a hill, the dynamic energy it has (weight * height*) is distributed to kinetic energy of its center of mass BUT also to the wheels in the form of rotational motion.

so in the end, you have the same amount of dynamic energy divided to forward motion and rotational motion.
george_tsiros
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what? no they are not. the basics are the same. you need careful assembly. one to look pretty and be accurate, the other to look pretty and work.

at least that's how i

the only static model i ever did was an f14... when i was little... never painted it. glue was all over the place i was so sad i couldn't make it nice :'(

maybe i need to do one now. they are not expensive after all...

(the painting though... hm...)

and here is a model that a friend made

from scratch

IT IS NOT MINE
george_tsiros
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what the hell are you talking about!?

do you even have something SPECIFIC in mind or are you writing things randomly???
george_tsiros
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i see there is no love for rc models:sorry:
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