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Re: Darn those definitions (was: The new Super Car) (fwd)
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 7 Aug 1999 15:54:48 GMT
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Shawn Menninga <smq@dwarfrune.com%stopspammers%>
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At 08:35 07-08-99 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
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> A liquid is an incompressible fluid.
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> A gas is a compressible fluid.
Exactly. And from an engineering standpoint (with all due respect to
Mirriam Webster et at.) that's the difference between pneumatics and
hydrolics. Whatever the media invloved, pneumatic devices operate through
the flow of *compressible* substances while hydrolics operate through the
flow of *incompressible* substances. These require very different design
theories as they behave very differently.
-SMQ Shawn Menninga smq@dwarfrune.com
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