Re: Vector Rules
From: Gravity is falling in a good way today <KOCHTE@s...>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 11:35:19 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Vector Rules
>@:) You can practice this in real life (kids! do this at home! WITHOUT
>@:) parental consent - but I take no claims for any messes you make in
>@:) the mean time!) Get a 10' section of PVC pipe, fill it with a
>@:) material of your choice (dirt, water, whatnot), cap both
>@:) ends. That'll represent the steel beam above. Get a straw. That'll
>@:) represent the shaft of wood. :) Put both on a 'lazy susan'.
>@:) Now...try and rotate them. No, really. This will work, and *ought*
>@:) to demon- strate the basic principles trying to be shown above.
Status: RO
>
> Or you could suspend the thing from a string tied around the
>middle. Might be cheaper than going out and buying a lazy susan.
Hey!! Stop being so practical! Geez...
Mk
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