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John Cuthber

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  1. I got a reference to that paper from Google and the few fractured sentences that Google gave sugested that the original paper might answer the question of what happens to the diamagnetism of Bi when it melts.

    I'd like to know what the whole paper says.

     

    There's certainly some effect of crystal structure as shown by the second paper I cited.

  2. If you took a balloon diving with you it would get squashed. It would occupy less space so you would get more baloons to the kilometer. Also the air in it would be compressed so that too would be denser.

    What I'm really not certain about is the effect of lower atmospheric pressure on the balloons a long way up. An inflated balloon at the top of Everest has less (mass of) air in it.

    I think the overall effect is that only the weight of the rubber counts because the air in the balloon is bouyed up by the air outside it. If I weigh a balloon, then blow it up and reweigh it the weight is very nearly the same.

     

    This is a more interesting question that it first looks.

  3. your 12hp motor is 9000w, taking 750W as 1hp.

     

    my initial calculations factoring 2hp (1500W) by 7 = 10500W

     

    which is plenty, however there seems to be argument from some here about this, it would be interesting to see THEIR answers to your question ;)

     

    How do you justify multiplying the power by 7?

    Please do this with the world's power stations and solve the energy crisis.

     

    The simple fact is that if you try this trick what will happen is the motor will overheat because you are overrunning it.

    If you tried running a 12 HP compressor with a 1 HP motor it would initially run fine but, as the pressure in the air receiver rose the force on the pistons (and thus on the motor) would rise. After a while the pressure would be so high that the motor would stall and burn out.

    With 10HP you wil probaly get away with it for a while.

  4. The experiment has certainly been repeated many times. For a long time (and perhaps still) there was a pendulum set up in the science museum in London and a similar one in the university of Manchester. I guess there are others.

    http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10196799

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Conference_Centre

     

    As you say, the coriolis effects are pretty convincing.

    The original problem of the "earth at the centre of the universe" idea i.e. the complications of the orbits of the planets and sun remains a major problem for those determined to believe in it.

     

    Anyone who doesn't believe the evidence we currently have simply isn't paying attention.

  5. Making compressed air takes energy. The compressor will have a rating of so many cubic feet per minute at such and such pressure. That is a power rating. Ignoring the efficiency and things like friction losses that requiremment is why it needs 12HP and 10HP quite simply won't do it.

    Given that the displacement (CF/M) will be the same (because the RPM is the same) the pressure will not be as high- if you try to run this system at full load you will overload the motor.

     

    Stop pretending that you can ignore the power rating.

  6. What you described is Cantor's tenerary set, or the Cantor set for short. The result is an uncountably infinite set of points that has Hausdorff dimension of about 0.63, has set zero measure, is closed, and is nowhere dense.

     

    Thanks for that, I understood almost every word, but not a single concept.

    :)

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