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- Subject: Try this problem.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.115739.419@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- From: wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor)
- Date: 20 Aug 92 11:57:38 +1200
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- An ellipse is fixed in a vertical plane (but with neither axis vertical).
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- Various chords may be drawn from the highest point on the ellipse, to some
- other point on the ellipse; a smooth segment of wire laid along the chord
- and a frictionless bead allowed to slide (under gravity) from the top end
- of the chord down to the other end.
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- What are the directions of the maximum and minimum times of descent ?
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- Bill Taylor wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz
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- Free will - the result of chaotic amplification of quantum events in the brain.
- Galaxies - the result of chaotic amplification of quantum events in the big bang.
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