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Re: Laundromat



First, you run the numbers mv*v/R to determine which answer you are
looking for and then you explain the observed results in terms of air
flow being more effective in deorbiting dry clothes OR water having
the ability the glue the wet lump to the side of the rotor?



At 8:06 AM -0500 5/7/01, brian whatcott, you wrote about Laundromat:


I took my washing to a laundromat a day or two ago.
When the washing machines finished, I placed my clothes
in a commercial drier. This featured a 70 cm diameter rotor on
a horizontal axis, through which warm air blew, and which could
be seen to rotate at 1 Hz.

I noticed that initially, the wash was held on the circumference,
but after 8 minutes, the clothes were falling off the top of the
loop, so to speak, so that the inspection window was full of
falling clothes.

Why would that occur?
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net> Altus OK
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