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Title: hung up on easy math
Post by: shooter on October 23, 2019, 06:27:09 pm
so I'm trying to crank out F=M*A
my 2ducks say M = 6 * 10^24
also speed is 460 M/S (67,000 mph)

I'm hung 'cuz there is no  :dontknow: acceleration, the object (earth:) is a "constant" speed, well it lost a millisecond over the last 100yrs  :icon_biggrin:

so do I square the S anyway?

thanks
dave
Title: Re: hung up on easy math
Post by: PRR on October 24, 2019, 03:04:59 pm
I don't even understand the problem. Are you moving the earth or flying away from it? Is there a picture?
Title: Re: hung up on easy math
Post by: shooter on October 24, 2019, 03:25:07 pm
 :l2:

what I'm looking for is a quick way to equate a near impossible feat
I want to 'splain to someone quick;
ya, if you get 7 billion folks all "pushing" at once we can generate X force, the "rock" we're on is producing Y force so we gotta do that ALOT, kinda thing

for the one that "bite' I do want to have a math starting point for further consideration, BUT I don't want to re-learn vectors, angular velocity, ettal  :laugh:

Back to the problem;
If any object has a constant speed do you assume Acceleration = 1 in the simple F = M*A?

I get that we're moving with the rock n it's not a great example, but just the fact the rock weighs 6 X 10^24 kg I gotta do something with that  :laugh:
Title: Re: hung up on easy math
Post by: PRR on October 25, 2019, 04:24:52 pm
Still not understanding your question.

In free space, if velocity is constant, there is no acceleration.

On the surface of the earth, constant velocity (including zero), we "feel" a 1 Gee acceleration due to gravity.

If I build a rocket, with thrust equal to (earth) weight, and run it far from any gravity-mass, it will accelerate at 1 Gee and gain speed quickly.

If I start that rocket on the earth's surface, 1 Gee thrust will make it light on its pad but it will not lift. (The big Saturn V lifts at about 1.2 Gee thrust, so 0.2 Gee net acceleration, and is accelerating slower than a Geo for a while, until its mass is reduced by fuel burn.)

If all the people on Earth pushed the same way, what would they push *against*? Yes, I can push East on a tree, but my feet push West. I'm not going to move the earth, just strain a small section of soil. (With an excavator I can push the tree hard enough to rip soil, but also make skid-marks under the treads. The earth as a whole does not move.)

If all the people on earth were bunched-up in a group, and "pushed with their feet", each person has 8,000 miles of rock under their footprint. Even if they had a stick reaching to the moon so they could exert push without causing a matching pull on the earth, the mass of rock per person is 6,000,000 times the weight of a person, so while we-all could "move the earth" it wouldn't move much.

It is almost exactly the 52nd anniversary of "Levitating the Pentagon" (https://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/10/the-day-they-levitated-the-pentagon/). "No one claims that the Pentagon actually moved. Maybe there was a mistake in the incantation." However they did have a Permit to lift the Pentagon, but only 3 feet (reduced from 300).
Title: Re: hung up on easy math
Post by: shooter on October 25, 2019, 05:01:49 pm
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In free space, if velocity is constant, there is no acceleration.
Thank you
did FINALLY figure it out, gravity is what hung me  :think1: (hung me up a few times climbing also :) 

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so while we-all could "move the earth" it wouldn't move much.
yep, my eventual point.
workin up a translator from logical  thought human to emotional based versions.  WAY harder than communicating with guitar types  :icon_biggrin:



Title: Re: hung up on easy math
Post by: shooter on January 01, 2020, 06:45:50 pm
my current gig has me playin volatiles n lead dust, so.....

Freq = 22,000 yrs

dividing by 1 gets me .000045455 yrs, not very helpful, so;
I X 12 months X 365 days X 24hrs X 60 min to get 286.9776 minutes, useful.

IF I got on the right conversion bus  :dontknow:
Title: Re: hung up on easy math
Post by: Williamblake on January 02, 2020, 10:08:21 am
Years is time, frequency is hertz, dividing by one isnt much of a change. Which planets month are 365 days i wonder?
Title: Re: hung up on easy math
Post by: shooter on January 02, 2020, 10:50:52 am
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Years is time, frequency is hertz

thinking that's the bus I shoulda started on; I'm trying to get to the bus for miles, feet, inches 
should be done with volatiles n lead tomorrow  :w2: