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Re: The Law of Falling Lego
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sun, 10 Sep 2000 19:44:43 GMT
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TOBIAS.MOLLER@ihatespamTELIA.COM
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Here's a more accurate calculation (deals with different surfaces):
L = (H(R/50)+B)/S
Set H to the height of the table, B to the number of studs of the brick,
R to the radius you get with (H*6) and finally, S to the "bounciness" of
the surface. A wooden floor (or a floor of solid rubber if anyone has
one) has a low (1) value, and a soft carpet has high value (around 10,
if it's really soft, 11). When this is done, you get the Length Of
Bounce, L.
I just made it up now, but it actuallly seems to work pretty fine. I
tried it with cm on my carpet, and, well...
--Tobias
Shiri Dori wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> > Adam Hoekwater <ahoekwat@nd.edu> wrote:
> > > After a dropped Lego piece hits the floor, it travels across the floor
> > > roughly six times the distance from the table to the floor.
> > >
> > > (Drop Distance) * 6 = Radius at which I start looking.
> >
> > On what surface? Linoleum? Hardwood? Carpet? (What kind of carpet?)
>
> Hehe... it doesn't matter :-)
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> -Shiri
> (yes, I know that's not physics-wise possible... but we already agreed that
> lego bricks don't obey the physics rules! :-)
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| (...) Hehe... it doesn't matter :-) -Shiri (yes, I know that's not physics-wise possible... but we already agreed that lego bricks don't obey the physics rules! :-) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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