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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 report "Technical Report TR-1 Rocket Stability" by Vernon Estes in which he defines and refers to center of pressure. Is this much worse than say the term center of buoyancy?
Scott
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