If that's the case, we should have manufactured "square" bombs for maximum wind friction, but we would have lost accuracy....you really want a bomb unaffected by wind resistance/air currents. Damon B Telrad Electronics Fort Wayne IN ----- Original Message ----- From: <becyn@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 12:57 PM Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Phono Idler tire source > Your side of the argument sounds more reasonable to me... > > I guess that's why he's teaching physics at a shipyard and not at MIT. > The bomb has the same velocity as the aircraft at the time of release > and then > will quicky slow down due to wind friction ( and probably by design > too). The concept is > more or less the same as an artillery shell trajectory. In the aircraft > case the "muzzle velocity" is much slower. > > Jim Mcvey > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Hoyt's TV <hoytstv@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sunday, October 30, 2005 11:30 am > Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Phono Idler tire source > > > OK I'll start something here. > > When I was teaching electronics at the local shipyard, I got in an > > argument > > with the apprentice program's science (physics) teacher about > > dropping > > bombs. He said they will hit what is directly below the plane at > > the time of > > release. I of course took a different view. I said they don't lose > > their > > forward momentum instantly at the time of release, so they will hit > > somewhere ahead of there depending on altitude and wind friction. > > > > He was also my supervisor, so I couldn't win, or even pursue it as > > I would > > have liked. > > > > Russ Hoyt > > Hoyt's TV > > Exeter, NH > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <Magma4592@xxxxxxx> > > To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 7:07 PM > > Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Phono Idler tire source > > > > > > > The belt thing works perfect. Absolutely will not change the > > speed. The > > > idler transfers motion at a 1 to 1 ratio to the platter. The > > idler could > > > be > > > twice the size and the speed would be the same .Think about it, > > if the > > > pulley was > > > 1 inch in circumference and it made one turn it would move one > > inch of > > > the > > > idlers outer circumference and that one inch is transferred > > directly to > > > the > > > platter no matter what size the idler is. The only thing that > > would > > > change is > > > the speed at which the idler turns. If the idler was 1 inch > > then it > > > would > > > turn once for every turn of the pulley if the idler was 2 inches in > > > circumference it would make half of a turn for every turn of the > > pulley > > > but it would > > > still transfer the same 1 inch to the platter. Believe me, I > > have won > > > money on > > > this one with new tech's who have worked for me over the years. > > And I > > > think > > > the belt thing is a lot easier, faster and less expensive than > > getting a > > > new > > > one. > > > > > > > > > Mike W. > > > A.M. stereo & video > > > Seattle WA. > > > 206 364 5904 > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ----------- > > > This Email List is accessible to the general public through > > search > > > engines. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm > > > Set Vacation > > > mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation > > > Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login > > Problems?".> Email Archives: > > //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/> > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------- > > This Email List is accessible to the general public through search > > engines. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm > > Set Vacation > > mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacationLost > Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > > Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > This Email List is accessible to the general public through search engines. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm > Set Vacation mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation > Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is accessible to the general public through search engines. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Set Vacation mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/