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Check out...
http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-022.htm
in which there is, I believe, an explanation for the water disturbance along
the whole length of the ship--the thing that bothered me.
Rick
Richard W, Tarara
Professor of Physics
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
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-----Original Message-----
From: chuck britton
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 9:22 PM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] old stuff--battleship momentum conservation.
At 3:39 PM -0600 2/3/11, Jack Uretsky wrote:
Certainly there is a recoil. The USS Phillipine Sea (a carrrier) had anCan't avoid a recoil.
early version of a night landing system. The electronics were based on
vacuum tubes. In those days the carriers of our class carried 5" guns for
air defense, so we happily put to sea for gunnery practice. During gnnery
practice the tubes in the night landing system all shatttered. The year
was 1948,
Regards,
The ship feels it as a shake but not a (measurable) translation.
Not even a significant 'heel'.
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