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Subject:	Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard")
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics
Date:	Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:59:47 GMT
Original-From:	Jim Choate <ravage@einsteinSTOPSPAMMERS.ssz.com>
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On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Steve Baker wrote: > So long as we are down here on the surface of the earth talking about > the air pressure under the skirt of a hovercraft and whether it'll > lift or not, weight and mass are equivelent concepts. That's a pretty basic physics mistake <shrug>. -- ____________________________________________________________________ We don't see things as they are, ravage@ssz.com we see them as we are. www.ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org Anais Nin www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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		Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard")
(...) How? It seems to me that as long as acceleration due to gravity is constant (i.e. same altitude, same planet; in this case, 9.8 m/s/s) then weight and mass have a simple proportional relationship. (22 years ago, 30-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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		Re: "real" LEGO Hovercraft ? (with/without batteries/RCX "onboard")
(...) So long as we are down here on the surface of the earth talking about the air pressure under the skirt of a hovercraft and whether it'll lift or not, weight and mass are equivelent concepts. (...) Yes - I understand that. (...) Yes...although (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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