Recent content by abecedarian

I'm only saying I've seen threads / topics started in a similar manner without any comment by others. Also, a quick perusal of the TOC doesn't suggest this is not acceptable; I could be wrong, though.

While not technically correct, rain water collected in a clean barrel, as well as that which directly lands on you for that matter, is not too far removed from being equivalent to distilled water. Certainly, it will contain some particulates from nucleation (formation of the rain drop) as well...

Cool! I, as well as a lot of people, do a little shorthand to get around decimals whenever possible. Also makes it handy when we have to show our work, like how we get from one step to the next but can use calculators. Count decimal places on the side of the operation you want to get rid of the...

With the apples, 1.4142 means you have 1 whole apple and 4142 pieces of another that was cut into 10000 equal sized pieces. If you multiply both sides by 10 to some power so as to eliminate the decimal point in the equation... for instance: 4 / 1.4142 (original) 40 / 14.142 (* 10 on each side...

Differential pressure sensor like MPX5010 or similar maybe? http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=447472

Do you have a sketch or something you can post to show what you mean by the 45* angle?

Also, notice that the wavelength of violet light is close to being a 2nd harmonic of red light so the 'waves' will become increasingly coincident, but since the violet's frequency is also nearing twice that of red, sensitivity will be decreased.