On Wednesday 21 November 2007 23:27, Brian Chabot wrote:
Also, to bring this more on topic, as a push for FOSS, with open
source software you could use available source code for ballistics
and aerodynamic modeling in order to find the exact answer here. In
a closed source world, you'd have
On Nov 22, 2007 7:05 AM, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 23:27, Brian Chabot wrote:
Has anyone tried Maxima for Linux? I use its predecessor, Macsyma,
on Win98 and absolutely love it. No, more honestly, I invested enough
time working with it to become
Ted Roche wrote:
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/42315/32A73B64F8DC
FYI, for those who like to measure such things, we got 21 members in the
first 24 hours.
And in the second 24 hours, membership rose to 30.
The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the
bane of
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 17:51, Greg Rundlett wrote:
I really like the indoor batting facility in Salisbury, MA (Extra
Innings). I wondered how 'fast' the fast cage was
Y = Big League pitch speed =
60.5 feet / .45 seconds = Y feet / 1 second
Y = 134.444 feet / second * 3600 / 5280
If you're asking how fast does it appear to be going based on
time of flight from the pitchers mound to the batter, the answer
is 100mph.
Heh. And I wonder if the insurance premiums aren't a bit
more affordable if you explain to your insuror that you're
only beaning your customers with
The real physics (1960's vintage, no calculators, no linux) answers (plural)
are even simpler. If you're asking how fast is the ball going, it's going
50mph. If you're asking how fast does it appear to be going based on time
of flight from the pitchers mound to the batter, the answer is
Brian Chabot wrote
In terms of education and its promotion, it might be interesting
to use baseball physics to get students more interested who
otherwise might not be...
It's an opportunity that's being pursued. As one example there's a
book specifically about baseball,
On Thursday 22 November 2007 12:01, Ric Werme wrote:
Sigh, one course I didn't take in college and kinda wish I had was
Fluid Dynamics. I really should read up on that. I did show some
movies in a FD class showing turbulent laminar drag.
I took Fluid Mechanics at Michigan Tech (in the
I'm sure you can't MAKE kids interested in engineering, but there are
certainly classes of toys that a great many of the more geek-inclined people
I know remember fondly.
LEGO
Erector sets
Tinkertoys
Lincoln Logs
Piles of junk + imagination
Any I've missed? If I ever have children they're
