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Offline The Moan Ranger

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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #15 on: April 13, 2008, 01:58:38 PM »
Liverpool + "greatest academics" are words that can surely never go together?
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #16 on: April 13, 2008, 01:59:21 PM »
Quote from: Darwins Selection on April 13, 2008, 01:57:07 PM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on April 13, 2008, 01:50:39 PM
Show your workings! Mine assume gravity at 9.8 m/s/s and a terminal velocity due to gravity of 125mph.

And your allowance for higher air density and friction?

Not to mention eddy current forces as lead (a conductor) passes through the centre where the magnetic field will effectively reverse (from the lead ball's perspective).

We are talking Newton's Law of Gravity here. Don't go bring magnetic forces into it 'cos they would cause the lead ball to spin when it reached the centre point and then anything could happen.
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #17 on: April 13, 2008, 01:59:32 PM »
Quote from: Darwins Selection on April 13, 2008, 01:57:07 PM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on April 13, 2008, 01:50:39 PM
Show your workings! Mine assume gravity at 9.8 m/s/s and a terminal velocity due to gravity of 125mph.

And your allowance for higher air density and friction?

Not to mention eddy current forces as lead (a conductor) passes through the centre where the magnetic field will effectively reverse (from the lead ball's perspective).
And he's mixing his Imperials and Metrics...  whistle:
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #18 on: April 13, 2008, 01:59:54 PM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on April 13, 2008, 01:58:38 PM
Liverpool + "greatest academics" are words that can surely never go together?


Hence the meeting place. ::)
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #19 on: April 13, 2008, 02:00:52 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on April 13, 2008, 01:59:54 PM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on April 13, 2008, 01:58:38 PM
Liverpool + "greatest academics" are words that can surely never go together?


Hence the meeting place. ::)
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #20 on: April 13, 2008, 02:03:47 PM »
« Last Edit: April 13, 2008, 02:08:48 PM by Snoopy »
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #21 on: April 13, 2008, 02:17:58 PM »
As I assumed the ball wouldn't melt, it was obvious that my ball (!) Was not made of lead - more like something akin to the tiles on the Space Shuttle, thus no magnetic interference.

OK!
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #22 on: April 13, 2008, 02:22:54 PM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on April 13, 2008, 02:17:58 PM
As I assumed the ball wouldn't melt, it was obvious that my ball (!) Was not made of lead - more like something akin to the tiles on the Space Shuttle, thus no magnetic interference.

OK!

My late Father in Law was one of the research chemists that designed those tiles.   whistle:
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #23 on: April 13, 2008, 02:27:13 PM »
Well have a Seance and ask him then. I'm sure you can move the glass with your muddy paw.
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #24 on: April 13, 2008, 02:34:21 PM »
Oh I know what he would say ~ same as he always said. "Well? ~ What do you think?"
Never gave an answer to anything asked of him. He would allow anyone to talk talk themselves to a standstill, look at his watch and say "That won't work, now you'll have to excuse me but I have a plane to catch"  Banghead
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #25 on: April 13, 2008, 02:47:53 PM »
If you place a celluprime into the equation which in my way of thinking is of utmost importance, x in fact =18/655 therefore leading to an optimum terminal speed minus the force of gravity divided by 4.222. and concludes to the eventual height of desent or asent, depending on which way you look at it, to being the exact height of re-entry downwards into the chasm before falling back towards the core, where it will assume constant equalirsiasm in a circular motion pointing n,w,s, and east at the same time.
 
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #26 on: April 13, 2008, 02:47:55 PM »
And I know I mixed my metric and imperial measures, however, I am sure this august body are capable of the requisite conversions.

A far harder question is "how many beans make five"?
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #27 on: April 13, 2008, 02:49:34 PM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on April 13, 2008, 02:47:55 PM
And I know I mixed my metric and imperial measures, however, I am sure this august body are capable of the requisite conversions.

A far harder question is "how many beans make five"?

The answer to that is "A Train"

Now I have one for you

If it takes a week to walk a fortnight ~ how many apples in a pound of grapes?
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #28 on: April 13, 2008, 02:57:14 PM »
"A train" is incorrect.

The proper answer is "a bean, two beans, a bean and a half and half a bean".

Silly hound.
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Re: One for the egg heads
« Reply #29 on: April 13, 2008, 02:58:09 PM »
So where did the train come in?
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