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- From: crowder@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Mark Crowder)
- Subject: Re: Slip-sliding away (was Re: What would you ride...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.211230.21182@spdc.ti.com>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:12:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.194212.6271@colorado.edu> alex@lyra.colorado.edu (Alex Matthews) writes:
- >"You are riding your bike in a straight line. Is your front wheel rotating
- >about its hub, or about its contact point with the road, or both, or
- >neither?"
- Movement about an axis (hub) is "rotation". Movement in a straight
- line is "translation". The contact point with the road is not
- relevent if there is no acceleration.
- >
- Mark Crowder crowder@spdc.ti.com
- Dallas, Tx 88 BMW R100RS Texas Instruments, Inc.
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