Recent content by platipo

of course I assume you're not lying and you don't experiment with this stuff under hallucinogens, the fact keeps being puzzling...

ok... I admit of course I know little about atomic level behaviour in phase transitions, though it seems still very unlikely, and unreasonable; you're sending microwave radiation centered around the resonating frequency of a water molecule (ideally) and you tell me that by sending energy inside...

I have it! It finally works! Thank you again, I'll soon try out some different dynamics and see what I can get out of it.

a thermocouple I guess will be metallic... that doesn't sound that smart, though I know little about microwave ovens. btw, this led me to asking myself: would any measure you could get be of any physical significance? we usually call it thermodynamics, but the meaning of a measure outside...

imho density is associated with mass per unit volume, so...by definition nothing can be less dense then vacuum. Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean...

well, actually we have many different safe distance models we are working on, and the dynamics itself is all but done, there are many different models that are worth a try, the one I'm using is one, it doesn't take into account reaction times and it's linear, but before switching to a more...

they say the proper formula is this s = v^2 / (2 · g · k) BUT I didn't want to be a square function of speed but a linear one, and putting all constants equal to one... this is not nonsense of course, everything might make sense dimensionally provided you multiply it by one the right number of...

sorry but I fail to understand: a molecule and a 3d harmonic oscillator are two different things: the classic 1dimensional harmonic oscillator has a potential equal to kx/2, for a 3d harmonic oscillator in cartesian coordinates the potential is a function of the distance from the origin so...

WHAT? I don't believe this...I firmly stand behind the second law of thermodynamics.

well, reality is a totally different animal. a REAL generator will have an internal resistance, no wire will have no resistance at all, though for a small circuit it could be negligible compared to that of resistors, so you will have no infinite currents. And since now your system does have a...

numbers in a calculator are just numbers; I want the safe distance to be a linear function of speed, and that's what I'm getting. How would you do that? The algorithm DOES reflect reality (somehow) it's called a "car following" model, and there's plenty of literature about that, and you're...

I know... I'm trying to improve my programming habits, bur sometimes I just get lazy. no, C is ampli/omega, so the algebra was right, though as a matter of fact I have no use for that PI factor now, I'm removing it well, that doesn't make much sense, I'm not comparing quantities, I'm making...

sure; actually the force function now has no use for the time variable, but in a previous version the leader car motion was determined by the force function and that's why I'm passing time to that, it's actually a mistake, but I'm pretty sure it's not that relevant, in the program now, and...

I've been browsing the forum, but I haven't found a way to solve this thing, which has been frustrating me for quite a while, I'm trying to develop a simulation of cue formation and propagation on cars on a single lane road, and of course, I have to compute the acceleration of vehicles obeying a...