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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:44:48 -0700*****************************
From: "Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese"
Subject: Re: PHYS-L Digest - 2 Oct 2000 to 3 Oct 2000 (#2000-347)
Mmmmm....
Both are centres of force; one dynamic the other static; therefore, I think
buoyancy applies to only the static case
No?
bc
"S.Goelzer" wrote:
report "Technical Report TR-1 Rocket Stability" by Vernon Estes in which he defines------------------------------snip
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:39:17 -0700
From: "Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese"
Subject: Re: The Olympics, egg drop
Am I mixed up, or is not centre of force more appropriate?
bc
"S.Goelzer" wrote:
"centre of air resistance" is also called center of pressure (CP). Whenbuilding
model rockets the CP must be after the center of mass for the rocket to fly
Maybe it _should_ be center of air resistance force, but I went and pulled the
and refers to center of pressure. Is this much worse than say the term center of
buoyancy?
Scott