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berkeman reacted to erobz's post in the thread Undergrad DH Mt Bike - Optimizing Drop Landing Ramp Profile with
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@berkeman I'm in the grey shirt. This is Mt. Creek Bike Park in New Jersey. This is me coming off of a pretty nice sized drop... -
berkeman reacted to boneh3ad's post in the thread Graduate Linearization of the Navier–Stokes equations for real airflow conditions with
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Do you understand the concept of linearization? The fundamental idea relies on assuming certain terms are small enough that nonlinear... -
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I have not got it running yet. Your gate bias was a problem. See attached. -
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The device can add inertia to the suspension travel without adding very much actual mass. If the suspension is thought of in an... -
berkeman reacted to Baluncore's post in the thread What should sit beside a physics equation? with
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Take a look at a book of physics formulas. https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BDXFMG5M/ -
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I don't have youtube for videos, but maybe I can get some still frames. :smile: -
berkeman replied to the thread Undergrad DH Mt Bike - Optimizing Drop Landing Ramp Profile.I think some videos of your riding group are needed here... :smile: -
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Thanks! However, from the videos posted by @berkeman I'm getting the impression that it's usually not a passive ride over the edge. The... -
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All of this is very helpful indeed! I'm going to try to work through the details on my own, so that I make sure I really understand and... -
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berkeman reacted to mfb's post in the thread Voyager 1: order-of-magnitude cross-track drift and speed loss over the next 100–1000 years with
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With your assumptions, the acceleration due to gas (or gas+dust, a 1% effect isn't important here) is ##\frac{v^2\rho A}{m} = 7\cdot...
