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I was thinking something along the lines of: when the (elastic) rope is tensioned it stores energy in a spring-like way; when the rope snaps the energy is released; however, the rope does not snap in the middle and therefore you have release of energy in 2 effective different lengths of rope...

Long time no post but the following came up in a recent coffee time discussion: If you pull on a rope which is fixed to, say, a wall, and the rope breaks, what are the forces on each end of the rope. (We can assume the rope has some elasticity.) Putting it in other words, in equilibrium...

The seems to be the only part of Christmas on PF -- other than the bah-humbug thread :biggrin: Anyway, I'm shutting down for the hols. Happy Christmas Everyone![/color][/size]

Overnight, it's turned into a winter wonderland in Amsterdam. Frost on all the trees, small canals frozen over... proper brass monkeys weather :-p Will decorate the tree later. Have the feeling it will snow...

yeah -- i sent greg a pm about this when the results came out -- the thread was still high in my search/new posts page. only sure thing is that the results in post #1 should be considered the definitive article.

I like the title, but worth as a Nature article (even if News...)...?

I use the latex package currvita.

First? Of what? The 3rd week of December? :wink: More seriously, it could be a combination of the cold we've been experiencing over the past week. That, and the central heating I've had blasting out, have made my skin very dry and itchy.

Rubbish, you may get some like that but most people I know have families and leave their work at work. Perhaps if there's a grant deadline coming up one may work through the weekend/into the evenings, but the missus doesn't like it :biggrin:

I thought they were shutting QMW down. I'll find you a list... e2a: afaic, quality comes from research -- you'll get a good idea from the last research scores (even if they are 6 years old now): http://www.hero.ac.uk/rae/rae_dynamic.cfm?myURL=http://195.194.167.103/Results/byuoa/uoa19.htm...

They sound sloppy.

The OP confused me but... Past experience from a UK uni: I had a friend (masters level) who went out with one of the postdocs in the group (TA?) -- people did get funny and it did get quite heavy, with the threat of my mate being chucked off the course. I guess it's about protection of...

I can't remember much at all. In particular, no day to day events inlcuding nothing from my childhood. To me, it seems quite natural to be this way -- confuses my brother tho', who remembers things from way back to the tiniest detail.

It's like the balaclava trend of the late-80s.

Don't worry, your grades won't matter once you've left university... :-p