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Re: [Phys-l] ingenious? or just perverse?



I used some expensive shirt cardboard for the top and bottom and find that the 'savage' cube unsmashes and smashes quite nicely.

still seems symmetric.



On Jul 11, 2008, at Jul 11(Fri) 6:37 , John Denker wrote:

On 07/11/2008 01:59 PM, chuck britton wrote:
This 'Savage' method seems rather symmetric to me.
How does the added 'top' differ from the existing 'bottom'.

The top adds some constraints ... which are promptly violated.

A missing side can be freely distorted; an actual side cannot.

I'm missing something here.

Do the experiment. Paper is cheap.

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