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MysteryMen (1999). (highly underrated film). Invisible Boy can only go invisible when no one is looking at him. An apparently useless... -
russ_watters reacted to jbriggs444's post in the thread I 1:1 versus 2:1 Mechanical Advantage debate with
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Are we arguing about the definition of "mechanical advantage" or are we nattering about a choice of reference frame and where to draw... -
russ_watters reacted to A.T.'s post in the thread I 1:1 versus 2:1 Mechanical Advantage debate with Like.
The steps are irrelevant to the mechanical advantage. You can replace the human with a motor that continuously pulls itself up by...
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russ_watters reacted to Filip Larsen's post in the thread I 1:1 versus 2:1 Mechanical Advantage debate with Like.
You mean the distinction where pulleys and ropes are not massless and pulleys has friction? In that case you must have skipped my post...
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russ_watters reacted to Stavros Kiri's post in the thread Stargazing Solar Activity and Space Weather Update thread with Like.
After a few days of relative quiet, the Solar Activity intensifies once again, as large groups of big to huge sunspots make their way to...
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russ_watters reacted to Filip Larsen's post in the thread I 1:1 versus 2:1 Mechanical Advantage debate with Like.
To put it short, with a 2:1 ratio you do half the load, but then have to do it twice as long to perform the same amount work. Or put...
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russ_watters reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread How do people explore new ideas in physics? with Like.
Then anyone who wants to look at it can ask you for a link via PM. You're correct that it is off topic for this thread and for any...
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russ_watters reacted to PAllen's post in the thread How do people explore new ideas in physics? with Like.
A little off topic, but since I alluded to Faraday's long apprenticeship with Sir Humphrey Davy that acted as bridge from self teaching...
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russ_watters reacted to ersmith's post in the thread How do people explore new ideas in physics? with Like.
@adam_snyder if you have a software development background, and believe you have found some improved ways to do computational general...
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russ_watters reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread How do people explore new ideas in physics? with Like.
No, I'm just pointing out that his "sales pitch" makes his proposal off topic. The fact that his "sales pitch" might not be an accurate...
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russ_watters reacted to Lnewqban's post in the thread A Condensate rate of water for an air conditioning cooling coil with Like.
Welcome! Number of rows in the coils is also important. Calculation is very difficult, due to formed film of water around the tubes...
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russ_watters reacted to PeroK's post in the thread I Can this experiment break Lorentz symmetry? with Like.
That's what the Michelson-Morley experiment did. If there were a universal rest frame (in which Maxwell's laws held), then the speed of...
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russ_watters reacted to Nugatory's post in the thread I Can this experiment break Lorentz symmetry? with Like.
That’s the principle of relativity and it’s not Einstein, it’s Galileo from centuries earlier - Google for “Galilean transformations”...
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russ_watters reacted to Dullard's post in the thread A Condensate rate of water for an air conditioning cooling coil with Like.
Not precisely responsive, but may be useful to sanity-check results: The theoretical maximum water production rate is approx 5.6 Kg/Hr...
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russ_watters replied to the thread A Condensate rate of water for an air conditioning cooling coil.That assumes all of the energy extracted is for condensing water. You can do something like that with a more complicated cycle/system...