Steering compensation for high-performance motorcycles ...

I wouldn't have thought so. Ballistics was in my A-level mechanics
(maths, not spanners) course and if wind speed and air resistance
is discounted it comes down to a very simple equation along the lines
of "what goes up must come down, but the faster it is the further
it goes". Only with more greek in it.

 

ogden wrote:

"what goes up must come down, but the faster it is the further it goes"

and the quicker you'd better duck (IME)

 

Champ wrote

I shall be repeatedly be putting beer from several containers into my
head this weekend.

Does this help any ?

HTH

Paul.

 

Well if you're going to complexity like that, of *course* there are
going to be zillions of fourth order fourier transforms!

 

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated when you include the
ball geometry (the seam, for example) and its rotation.

 

it's that Steven Pinker book's influence again, I'm afraid.

 

You post some interesting stuff, y'know that? Shame I never understand
any of it.

 

You've never seen me try and catch a ball, have you.

 

And of course (and I think this is what steve was alluding to) the
changing relative positions of fielder and ball, and the effect of
this on the ability to judge the trajectory.

 

But that's easy: Galileo sorted it out.

 

Who did he play for?

 

Pisa in the 1582/3 season, transferring to Fiorentina before moving to
Siena for the 1585/6 championship. A transfer to Bologna fell through
and he moved to Roma before returning to Pisa to take the manager's
job for three years. He crowned his career with eighteen years at
Padua, taking every honour the game had to offer. He is best
remembered, unfortunately, for the disastrous 1613 cup season when a
brutal encounter with Vaticano went to a series of replays, Galileo
finally being eliminated by the the Vaticano number V Paul `the Pope'
Paul and a flat back four unmatched until the Inter side of the late
60s.

 

Well played.

A much better answer than I deserved.

 

Ace wrote

Yes indeed. I believe I did mention something about running after and
catching a ball. A concept a little beyond the majority of ukrm
readership it seems.

 

Some of them are pretty good at the ballistics of rattles though.

 

<round of applause>

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (M J Carley)
saying something like:

<snip>

Heh.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

No offence intended Guv. Quite the contrary in fact.