The fundamental idea can be explained using little more
than high-school-level math and physics ideas. I threw
together a few words and a diagram: http://www.av8n.com/physics/bourdon-basics.htm
The fundamental concept is one thing; the details are
quite another.
On 10/26/2012 08:56 AM, Roberto Carabajal wrote:
the foundations including Hooke`s and Young`s
laws.
If you want to understand it at that level of detail,
that involves quite a bit of mathematics, including
fourth-order Green functions, elliptic integrals, et
cetera ... rather more detail than we usually get into
on this list.
In practice, you would probably learn more from thinking
about the basic concepts and then doing a finite-element
analysis ... rather than just staring at the equations.