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Re: [undernetphysics] Re: Vexer update

Artem Nehamkin wrote:
> You are walking in the middle of a desert. Suddenly you see a pole,
approximately 1 meter long, and with a diameter of a finger. You lift it. You
sense that the denisty of the pole is not homogeneous. You realize that If you
won't find its center of mass quickly, something horrible will happen.
>
> How can you do it?
>
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> The answer should be accurate enough to balance the pole on your finger. (pole
parallel to the ground, perpendicular to the finger)
>
Balance it on your figure. What would be interesting is a number that
depicts how many are thrown by the question.

Best, Dan.




Tue May 19, 2009 4:31 pm

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Hello everyone. Thanks to all those who have made suggestions on the vexer. I have decided to try one of the suggestions. What we will do is have a vexer...
ZapperZ
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Sep 12, 2006
11:37 am

By the way .... ... Great idea but what happened? I'm still waiting patiently for the first vexer....
J_Ravensroke
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Apr 20, 2009
6:19 pm

I don't quite know if we actually started with this, or it simply stopped along the way. The previous Vexer game was done entirely by me, and that went on for...
ZapperZ
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Apr 21, 2009
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I got the impression you were going to post one more, then it would become self propagating. Except yes that might be hard to achieve in practice since there's...
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Apr 21, 2009
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You are walking in the middle of a desert. Suddenly you see a pole, approximately 1 meter long, and with a diameter of a finger. You lift it. You sense that...
Artem Nehamkin
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May 19, 2009
10:27 am

... Balance it on your figure. What would be interesting is a number that depicts how many are thrown by the question. Best, Dan....
Dan Bloomquist
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May 19, 2009
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