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    Spring Damper Design: Determine K & C for Helicopter Landing

    Thanks for the reply. I shall look into it.
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    Spring Damper Design: Determine K & C for Helicopter Landing

    Homework Statement For a Helicopter landing on an undercarriage system modeled as a single spring damper. In principle, is it possible to determine K and C values for a single (constant rate) spring damper system given the mass of the helicopter and 2 independent scenarios of initial...
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    What Does "Opaque" Mean in Metrology?

    Apparently Opacity can be defined as 'mass attenuation coefficient', which is the sum of scattered and absorbed light, so opacity can be a function of reflectance in effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opacity_(optics ) Anyway the author of the text in question has clarified the sentence...
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    What Does "Opaque" Mean in Metrology?

    Thanks That is my understanding of the situation too.
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    What Does "Opaque" Mean in Metrology?

    Indeed that was my understanding and I would have put the reference from the metrology test down to a misprint if I had not found several references quoting definitions for Opaque as being dependent on lack of reflectance. Thanks for the reply.
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    What Does "Opaque" Mean in Metrology?

    I'm puzzled. In an authoritative metrology text I read. "Focus detection instruments cannot be used to measure 'opaque' surfaces" as they require a finite level of reflected light to function. Non transmittance being (to my understanding) the key definition of "opaque", I looked up the...
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