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Radius of the track (was Re: Need some help with some Train specs)
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"kai brodersen" <cbrodersen@mediaone.net> wrote in message
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> I am sorry but thats not how ya' do it. The turn radius is basically
> measuring how wide a half a circle of track is from the outer track across
> the half circle to the outer track on the opposite side.
> check out this drawing it will help.
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=23133
Uhm no...your picture shows the diameter of a circle. The 'radius' measured
from the middle of the circle to the track. IIRC the center of the track is
used when measuring the radius of train tracks).
> The term "radius" is comes from HALF a circle of track.
Sorry for nitpicking, but the term radius doesn't come from 'half a circle'.
It is used to describe a circular path when a given point is turned X
degrees around a fixed point where the two points are the distance Y apart.
Y is the radius. Radius is a latin word which can be translated as 'the
spoke of a wheel'.
-Frank
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| I am sorry but thats not how ya' do it. The turn radius is basically measuring how wide a half a circle of track is from the outer track across the half circle to the outer track on the opposite side. check out this drawing it will help. (URL) term (...) (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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