Impact and Torque Wrenches
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Patrickg - topologically speaking - doesn't the rim of a wheel have two sides - the inside and the outside?
A Mobius strip has one side ...
(OK, OK, so it's not strictly speaking a polygon - but it is interesting!!)
Patrick
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An Engineer, a Physicist and a Mathematician were each placed in a room with a wooden table, a chair and a bucket of water, told to sit on the chair and the table set on fire.
The Engineer leapt up, ran to the bucket, picked it up and threw the water at the table, putting the fire out.
The Physicist got up, made some measurements, and then threw exactly the right amount of water over the fire so that it was put out, vapourising the water in the process, so the table was left dry.
The Mathematician got up, took out his notebook, looked at the burning table, looked at the bucket, made some calculations and said "Ah! A solution exists!" and sat down again, letting the table burn to a cinder.
A little while later the experiment was repeated, this time with the bucket of water placed on the table (they replaced the Mathematician's table).
The Engineer and Physicist did exactly the same as before.
The Mathematician looked at the table and bucket, then took the bucket off the table and put it on the floor, thereby reducing the problem to a previously solved one. He then sat down and let the table burn to a cinder again.
A Mobius strip has one side ...
(OK, OK, so it's not strictly speaking a polygon - but it is interesting!!)
Patrick
P.S.
An Engineer, a Physicist and a Mathematician were each placed in a room with a wooden table, a chair and a bucket of water, told to sit on the chair and the table set on fire.
The Engineer leapt up, ran to the bucket, picked it up and threw the water at the table, putting the fire out.
The Physicist got up, made some measurements, and then threw exactly the right amount of water over the fire so that it was put out, vapourising the water in the process, so the table was left dry.
The Mathematician got up, took out his notebook, looked at the burning table, looked at the bucket, made some calculations and said "Ah! A solution exists!" and sat down again, letting the table burn to a cinder.
A little while later the experiment was repeated, this time with the bucket of water placed on the table (they replaced the Mathematician's table).
The Engineer and Physicist did exactly the same as before.
The Mathematician looked at the table and bucket, then took the bucket off the table and put it on the floor, thereby reducing the problem to a previously solved one. He then sat down and let the table burn to a cinder again.
patrickg
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You said: I guess mathematicians wouldnt be very effective football players.
How do you figure that?
OK I know it was a cheap laugh.
I can see Josh Heupel of OU Sooners fame (Recent Orange Bowl wining quarter back...Heisman runner up) Brings HP reverse polish notation calculator to huddle, does quick check of parameters in the memory locations, calls the play, fades back into the pocket, scans for open receivers, calculates trajectories using formulae from deadly force discussions on tractorbynet, and is sacked while contemplating Zeno's paradox about how the ball would go half way to where the receiver would be going half way to... about only way OU could lose. Sorry, I don't usually get caught up in sports. I only watched two televised games in last year. OU at finals, and OU at Orange Bowl. Exciting stuff.
Next, I plan to watch some of the upcoming Olympic games.
Patrick
How do you figure that?
OK I know it was a cheap laugh.
I can see Josh Heupel of OU Sooners fame (Recent Orange Bowl wining quarter back...Heisman runner up) Brings HP reverse polish notation calculator to huddle, does quick check of parameters in the memory locations, calls the play, fades back into the pocket, scans for open receivers, calculates trajectories using formulae from deadly force discussions on tractorbynet, and is sacked while contemplating Zeno's paradox about how the ball would go half way to where the receiver would be going half way to... about only way OU could lose. Sorry, I don't usually get caught up in sports. I only watched two televised games in last year. OU at finals, and OU at Orange Bowl. Exciting stuff.
Next, I plan to watch some of the upcoming Olympic games.
Patrick
patrickg
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RPM, thanks for digging up that old chestnut, I hadn't heard that in years. Still a good chuckle.
Now then to IMPORTANT things.
ATTENTION EVERYONE!!! RPM has not only solved the "low thump" one sided wheel problem, while being too modest to take credit for it being, in fact, an infinite sided polygon (with a twist) but has simultaneously and elegantly solved it in terms of the great catepillar track debate raging on this site. You make your catepillar tracks out of a mobius strip achieving as did water powered and steam powered belt driven factory equipment decades ago, even wear on both sides and thus greater longivity.
Elegance, practicality, utility (futility??) the tracked vehicle prototype fitted with RPM's mobius strip breakthrough should have a girl type name since it is customary to name things of great beauty, grace, or speed in the feminine gender (quoting the rich kid in the "Our Gang Comedies", commenting on naming his racer.
So I submit we need a contest to name the Mobius Tracked Vehicle Prototype Something alluring, feminine, suggestive not MoTracVeProt plug ugly.
Patrick
Now then to IMPORTANT things.
ATTENTION EVERYONE!!! RPM has not only solved the "low thump" one sided wheel problem, while being too modest to take credit for it being, in fact, an infinite sided polygon (with a twist) but has simultaneously and elegantly solved it in terms of the great catepillar track debate raging on this site. You make your catepillar tracks out of a mobius strip achieving as did water powered and steam powered belt driven factory equipment decades ago, even wear on both sides and thus greater longivity.
Elegance, practicality, utility (futility??) the tracked vehicle prototype fitted with RPM's mobius strip breakthrough should have a girl type name since it is customary to name things of great beauty, grace, or speed in the feminine gender (quoting the rich kid in the "Our Gang Comedies", commenting on naming his racer.
So I submit we need a contest to name the Mobius Tracked Vehicle Prototype Something alluring, feminine, suggestive not MoTracVeProt plug ugly.
Patrick
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how did the tracks end up here??????
Hi ya
yep that belt may solve some probs but (ya going to hate me for this)the steam belts worked out of the mud and dust also prob with making track like that is running a twist on a 16-30 inch wide belt over a short length ,haveing tread on both sides that line up with ya driveing wheel i think holt got it right frist time .
and on a footnote for you viewers at home tune in next week when we reinvent the wheel only on TBN
sorry guys just had to say it,, but has been a good mind bender i bet beside a few computers at home there is drawings of tracks wheels etc etc trying to see both sides ..funny thing is if we only worked on maths the wright bros would be still sitting on the beach working out if it would fly or not
catch ya
JD Kid
Hi ya
yep that belt may solve some probs but (ya going to hate me for this)the steam belts worked out of the mud and dust also prob with making track like that is running a twist on a 16-30 inch wide belt over a short length ,haveing tread on both sides that line up with ya driveing wheel i think holt got it right frist time .
and on a footnote for you viewers at home tune in next week when we reinvent the wheel only on TBN
sorry guys just had to say it,, but has been a good mind bender i bet beside a few computers at home there is drawings of tracks wheels etc etc trying to see both sides ..funny thing is if we only worked on maths the wright bros would be still sitting on the beach working out if it would fly or not
catch ya
JD Kid
patrickg
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Re: how did the tracks end up here??????
Right on, JD. The bumble bee not knowing that aerodynamicists had determined that given its weight, frame, musculature, energy source, etc couldn't fly, flew anyway 'cause he didn't read the report.
Any body ever nick name you, Cap'n????
Patrick
Right on, JD. The bumble bee not knowing that aerodynamicists had determined that given its weight, frame, musculature, energy source, etc couldn't fly, flew anyway 'cause he didn't read the report.
Any body ever nick name you, Cap'n????
Patrick
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Being seriously outgunned here by the math-types, I'm going to toss out an old favoriteand flee.
I don't know if math is applicable /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif!
Can GOD make a rock so big that he can't pick it up?
(I know, I know, ...I posted this one somewhere on TBN before /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif )
Larry
I don't know if math is applicable /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif!
Can GOD make a rock so big that he can't pick it up?
(I know, I know, ...I posted this one somewhere on TBN before /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif )
Larry
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Hi ya
this one of those chicken V's egg kinda deals??? like ya self i'm not a math's guy but work out things from a hands on kinda way, like working out how patrickg's box blade bent and how to make it stronger ,but working out how many PSI in a golfball hit by tiger woods on mar's with a 5 iron in to a 100 knot wind in a dark stormy night on xmas eve 2002 ya'll lose me each time
bout this god rock thing clear up this point i thought he/she (yea yea nonbeliver here)only made liveing things rock would not fall in to this group also to lift some thing ya have to frist be standing on something .
kinda like picking up a bucket while standing in it
catch ya
JD Kid
this one of those chicken V's egg kinda deals??? like ya self i'm not a math's guy but work out things from a hands on kinda way, like working out how patrickg's box blade bent and how to make it stronger ,but working out how many PSI in a golfball hit by tiger woods on mar's with a 5 iron in to a 100 knot wind in a dark stormy night on xmas eve 2002 ya'll lose me each time
bout this god rock thing clear up this point i thought he/she (yea yea nonbeliver here)only made liveing things rock would not fall in to this group also to lift some thing ya have to frist be standing on something .
kinda like picking up a bucket while standing in it
catch ya
JD Kid
patrickg
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Thanks for the comment Gordon. The truck is an unfinished project but useable. Unfortunately I attached the wrong picture. My appologies, makes me look like some ego triper. Apparently, I have an unmet configuration management challenge. Was supposed to be a picture of just the wheel well with the torque wrench leaning against the tire. I always wondered when senility would set in. Got it figured, this month.
Patrick
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