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- From: sasso@flounder.phy.anl.gov (John F. Sasso)
- Subject: Re: Tracking
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.041103.20704@mcs.anl.gov>
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- Organization: Argonne National Laboratory
- References: <25JAN199313112698@vx.cis.umn.edu> <1993Jan26.011603.22455@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:11:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.011603.22455@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >soc1070 writes:
- >:
- >: As for decent rates, I think a basic problem would be that two
- >: different rockets, each exactly the same weight and with the
- >: same size 'chutes, would fall at different rates, because the one
- >: with the larger exposed area (i.e. fins, tube, etc) would be carried
- >: further down wind. A one pound rocket and a one pound sphere with
- >: identical chutes will not likely fall in the same place, so its
- >: difficult to say. In your case, what you computed was the *closest*
- >: possible distance.
- >
- >This is a little misleading. They will both fall at the same rate.
- >They will not fall at the same descent angle - the one with the greater
- >lateral area of resistance will drift further.
- >
- >Bill
-
-
- Um, just like a 1 gram piece of paper verses a one gram raison.
- (Geez, I thought you guys would understand basic physics. ;-( )
-
- jfs
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