Something for the armchair physicist or mathematician

[Bill Nichols]

Interesting article here:

http://www.maa.org/mathtourist/mathtourist_04_02_07.html

:know:

[ASWnut101]

Cool. :up:

[1mPHUNit0]

Very Interesting
:o:o

[Letum]

Facinateing!
Is there a hige res image with the points marked on?

[Sailor Steve]

Cool. :up:
He said it first.:sunny:

[robbo180265]

Wow!

Really interesting:up:

[Oberon]

Whoa, nice, very nice.

The points are marked on the image, they're just very hard to see, would be cool to see a higher-res image but I guess the original lies with the University.

Nice find Bill!! :up:

[TarJak]

Interesting stuff. :yep:

[GSpector]

Hello All,

After reading the posting and reviewing the picture, I think I may know why he was stumped.

With the example of the raindrop on a pond, this would be relative to the bomb at location "E" IF the bomb just hit the water. I think what is throwing him off is that the second impact to the surface was not from above as in the raindrop comparison but from below when the bomb exploded. The same would hold true at point "B" when the Torpedo hit, again under the surface.

The initial blast would push the water away causing larger faster waves. The next thing to happen would be all the water that was displaced upward, would then come downward, not outwards thus causing smaller waves.

Now, I could be wrong as I never could get past High School Algebra due to having problems understanding random variables so this is just my guess just from looking at the picture he provided.


Off Topic. A scientist once stated he was trying to figure out the mathematical answer to the Universe. I was not able to submit my suggestion but to me, it's simply this "!" and in more laymen terms ".". And in plan English without getting to complicated such as on the scale of Pi, the Universe just started out as a point in Un-space and just expanded from there. I can think of no better or more finite symbol then "." to represent the Mathematical Answer to the Universe.


G Spector