Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-31 Thread SAIDJACK
In a message dated 5/30/2007 22:42:08 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > it cannot directly read-in RS-232 output from the 53132A > (such as I posted > yesterday). This is because of the Comma the HP unit inserts > in the numbers. >please send short file and I will look

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-30 Thread Ulrich Bangert
haps I think about a way to store such things in the ini-file. Best regards Ulrich > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2007 22:43 > An: time-nuts@febo.com > Be

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-30 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Bill Beam wrote: >>> Assume satellite in circular orbit. (Not really necessary.) >>> Assume test mass's released at rest wrt satellite center of mass. >>> Inner test mass released closer to Earth and outer released farther >>> >> >from Earth. Also assume no air currents, no relativity, no

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Beam
On Thu, 31 May 2007 01:52:34 +1200, Dr Bruce Griffiths wrote: >Bill Beam wrote: >>Assume satellite in circular orbit. (Not really necessary.) >>Assume test mass's released at rest wrt satellite center of mass. >>Inner test mass released closer to Earth and outer released farther >>from Earth. A

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-30 Thread SAIDJACK
In a message dated 5/30/2007 13:06:23 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Regards Ulrich Bangert Hi Ulrich, I am still using plotter daily, easier to use than Stable32. Some comments on Plotter: it cannot directly read-in RS-232 output from the 53132A (such as I posted

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-30 Thread Ulrich Bangert
uency measurement > Betreff: Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity > > > On Wed, 30 May 2007 01:10:02 -0800, Bill Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Gentlemen: Those of you who have never taken a university physics > >course are

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-30 Thread Neon John
On Wed, 30 May 2007 01:10:02 -0800, Bill Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Gentlemen: Those of you who have never taken a university physics course >are excused for confusion over centripital/centrifugal/psudo forces. Some of >you who did take a university physics class spent too much time aslee

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-30 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Bill Beam wrote: > It helps if this problem is solved in a proper (Earth based) inertial frame > and to consider the total energy (kinetic plus potential) of the test masses. > But there are no strictly inertial frames based on the Earth. The earth rotates around its axis (neglecting precession

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-30 Thread Didier Juges
K, I believe I got it now. Thanks Didier KO4BB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulrich Bangert Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:37 AM To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-30 Thread Bill Beam
> >- Original Message - >From: "Dr Bruce Griffiths" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" > >Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:49 PM >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks &

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-30 Thread Don Collie
;Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:49 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity > Bill Beam wrote: > > > >>>> Not true. >>>> Very simple experiments will show occupants of

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread Ulrich Bangert
3s and my best regards Ulrich, DF6JB > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Didier Juges > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2007 02:35 > An: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Betreff: Re: [time-n

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread Neon John
On Tue, 29 May 2007 20:35:21 -0400, Didier Juges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks a lot again. > >I had no idea time-nuts would drive me to brush-up on physics :-) yeah. Only problem is, I think my brain exploded a few messages back in this thread! I think I liked pre-Einstein physics a lot

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Bill Beam wrote: >>> Not true. >>> Very simple experiments will show occupants of the satellite that they >>> are in a non-inertial reference frame. (Release a few test masses >>> about the cabin and you will observe that they move/accelerate for no >>> apparent reason, unless the satellite

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread Didier Juges
James, Where were you all week-end? Your explanations are so clear, it makes sense now. Thank you very much. I understand now that centrifugal forces are necessary to explain the behavior of objects when an accelerating frame of reference is used, but not necessary (actually counter-productive

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Bill Beam wrote: >>> Not true. >>> Very simple experiments will show occupants of the satellite that they >>> are in a non-inertial reference frame. (Release a few test masses >>> about the cabin and you will observe that they move/accelerate for no >>> apparent reason, unless the satellite is in

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread James Maynard
Bill Hawkins > [I should also edit part of my previous post, as indicated in the bracketed text below.] > -Original Message----- > From: James Maynard > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:26 AM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread Ulrich Bangert
cussion of precise time and frequency measurement' > Betreff: Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity > > > Aargh! > > Please change "Centripetal force also goes away if radial > motion goes away." to "Centripetal force also

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread Bill Hawkins
iscussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Subject: RE: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity Finally, something that makes sense! Thanks, James Maynard. The idea that the centripetal force that balances the gravitational force is fictitious was not popular

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread Bill Hawkins
ol of altitude. Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: James Maynard Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:26 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity Didier Juges wrote: > Bruce, > > A lot of th

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread James Maynard
Didier Juges wrote: > Bruce, > > A lot of the statements that have been made lately on this subject kind of > make sense to me in a way taken in isolation, but they do not all agree with > each other, and that makes me uncomfortable. > > Example: > > I do not understand why the frame of reference

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread Didier Juges
Bruce, A lot of the statements that have been made lately on this subject kind of make sense to me in a way taken in isolation, but they do not all agree with each other, and that makes me uncomfortable. Example: I do not understand why the frame of reference would matter when you talk about

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread Bill Beam
On Tue, 29 May 2007 22:27:42 +1200, Dr Bruce Griffiths wrote: >Bill >Bill Beam wrote: >> On Tue, 29 May 2007 16:31:40 +1200, Dr Bruce Griffiths wrote: >> >> >>> Ulrich, Didier >>> >>> Talking about forces, gravitational fields etc makes no physical sense >>> if the observer's reference frame i

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Bill Bill Beam wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2007 16:31:40 +1200, Dr Bruce Griffiths wrote: > > >> Ulrich, Didier >> >> Talking about forces, gravitational fields etc makes no physical sense >> if the observer's reference frame isn't specified. >> For an observer in/on a satellite orbiting about the

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-29 Thread Bill Beam
On Tue, 29 May 2007 16:31:40 +1200, Dr Bruce Griffiths wrote: >Ulrich, Didier > >Talking about forces, gravitational fields etc makes no physical sense >if the observer's reference frame isn't specified. >For an observer in/on a satellite orbiting about the Earth with their >reference frame fixe

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-28 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Neville Michie wrote: >> Hi All, >> > I am still having difficulty getting my head around the gravity point. > Now I accept, in principle, that due to relativity an intense > gravity field will slow a clock. > My problem is visualising where you will find this field. > At the centre of this

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-28 Thread Dr Bruce Griffiths
Ulrich, Didier Talking about forces, gravitational fields etc makes no physical sense if the observer's reference frame isn't specified. For an observer in/on a satellite orbiting about the Earth with their reference frame fixed with respect to the satellite. There is no gravitational field, wha

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-28 Thread Didier Juges
Ulrich Bangert wrote: > Didier, > > >> Since you know a lot more about this than I do, I will accept >> your statement that centrifugal forces (or more generally >> inertial forces) are fictitious, but only because you insist. >> As long as I can predict their effect and calculate their >>

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-28 Thread Neville Michie
> Hi All, I am still having difficulty getting my head around the gravity point. Now I accept, in principle, that due to relativity an intense gravity field will slow a clock. My problem is visualising where you will find this field. At the centre of this planet gravity (from the planet) is zer

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-28 Thread Arnold Tibus
d my best regards >Ulrich, DF6JB >> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Didier Juges >> Gesendet: Montag, 28. Mai 2007 17:59 >> An: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' >

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-28 Thread Bill Hawkins
-Original Message- From: Ulrich Bangert Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 8:23 AM To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity ---%< snip --- In case you do not believe take the next textb

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-28 Thread Ulrich Bangert
effect and calculate their > magnitude, that's all this engineer is interested in :-) > > 73, > Didier KO4BB > > > -----Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulrich Bangert > Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 8:23 AM

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-28 Thread Didier Juges
in :-) 73, Didier KO4BB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulrich Bangert Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 8:23 AM To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravit

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-28 Thread Ulrich Bangert
s of study in teaching physics. > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Didier Juges > Gesendet: Montag, 28. Mai 2007 13:53 > An: time-nuts@febo.com > Betreff: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity &

Re: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-28 Thread Ulrich Bangert
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Didier Juges > Gesendet: Montag, 28. Mai 2007 13:53 > An: time-nuts@febo.com > Betreff: [time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity > > > Ulrich,

[time-nuts] FW: Pendulums & Atomic Clocks & Gravity

2007-05-28 Thread Didier Juges
Ulrich, I am quite familiar with the cannon analogy. If I may use this analogy too, please consider the following: There must be a force balancing the force of gravity, otherwise the satellite would not cease from accelerating under gravity alone. Gravity exerts a force on the satellite which