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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote: Assuming I understand by your shorthand what you understand by it, you still haven't addressed the 32ft/sec˛ element of the swinging ball. As martin says, 'g'. Air resistance is quite immaterial if you're measuring it how it *MUST* be measured to comply with the law. There is no legal requirement to measure it yourself, let alone one to measure it in a particular way. If you measure it, and get less that 10 foot-pounds or more than 14.5 with a 20% error (including that due to air resistance), you can be pretty sure that an official measuring would match the result of yours (i.e. legal or illegal). Was it? The question I was addressing, and the one I expected you to be addressing, was the measurement of muzzle-energy in foot pounds. Er, yes. But, as every competent scientist and engineer knows, all measurements have errors. A skilled one will measure something so that the error is less than the difference between his measurement and any point at which a decision changes (12 foot-pounds in this case). But estimating accuracy of measurements seems to me to be another phrase approaching an oxymoron, and no, AFAIK the London syllabus didn't include anything like it, except in passing. The mind boggles! No, I will not continue this, er, debate - but I can assure you that it is a standard and required activity by any serious scientist or engineer. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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