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The last post is the WINNER!

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Looks easy enough to me. Maybe you should just ask an expert?
I don't know any IRL.
And on line....too difficult to communicate math.

Once I wade thru the arcane terminology, & determine
which concepts aren't useful, it's not hard. Surprisingly
straightforward even. And I've learned some new
things to complain about. Always a treat.
Hyperreal numbers....pbbbbttttttt!

One project is being able to explain how to calculate
horsepower from the area of an indicator diagram for
an engine I just bought (for that particular purpose).
The easiest explanation for how a planimeter works is
shockingly simple using line integrals.

ic-engines-10-638.jpg

It just now occurred to me that I must address power
consumed on the intake & exhaust strokes.
Doesn't collecting antique engines sound like fun?
@ChristineM might even join on the fun. France
has some significant early examples, eg, Lenoir.

BTW, I found the math book I thought I'd given away.
(It was still in a give-away box.) I'll slowly get up to
speed....knowing what I knew 40 years ago perhaps.

The indicator on my engine looks like this'n....
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Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
I don't know any IRL.
And on line....too difficult to communicate math.

Once I wade thru the arcane terminology, & determine
which concepts aren't useful, it's not hard. Surprisingly
straightforward even. And I've learned some new
things to complain about. Always a treat.
Hyperreal numbers....pbbbbttttttt!

One project is being able to explain how to calculate
horsepower from the area of an indicator diagram on an
engine I just bought (for that particular purpose).
The easiest explanation for how a planimeter works is
shockingly simple using line integrals.

ic-engines-10-638.jpg

It just now occurred to me that I must address power
consumed on the intake & exhaust strokes.
Doesn't collecting antique engines sound like fun?
@ChristineM might even join on the fun. France
has some significant early examples, eg, Lenoir.

BTW, I found the math book I thought I'd given away.
(It was still in a give-away box.) I'll slowly get up to
speed....knowing what I knew 40 years ago perhaps.

Simple

Pi times infinity divided by zero
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Flukeman, from the X-Files is today's winner.
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The poor thing! I remember a Psych class I had in High School. The assignment was to doodle. I drew a picture that caused the teacher to say, "drawing an ugly picture means depression".

How are you feeling? Are you wanting to go back to work? LOL
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
The poor thing! I remember a Psych class I had in High School. The assignment was to doodle. I drew a picture that caused the teacher to say, "drawing an ugly picture means depression".

How are you feeling? Are you wanting to go back to work? LOL
"Work"?
The word is vaguely familiar.
It seems that I once knew what it meant.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
"Work"?
The word is vaguely familiar.
It seems that I once knew what it meant.
Interesting. I just finished a survey that asked the question, is a stay-at-home mother or father considered "working".

I suppose the same question can be asked about Yard Work, Car Repair, Home Improvements, Taking Care of Everybody...
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Interesting. I just finished a survey that asked the question, is a stay-at-home mother or father considered "working".

I suppose the same question can be asked about Yard Work, Car Repair, Home Improvements, Taking Care of Everybody...
"Working" means that some one pays for what one does.
I don't make the rules. I just splain them.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
"Working" means that some one pays for what one does.
I don't make the rules. I just splain them.
Perfect So, so many things! I can't think of the right word I am thinking.

First of all, I think that you mean, someone else pays for the work you do.

Then, we have to wonder if pay always means money.

Can it mean, "reward"?

So now, what?
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Perfect So, so many things! I can't think of the right word I am thinking.

First of all, I think that you mean, someone else pays for the work you do.

Then, we have to wonder if pay always means money.

Can it mean, "reward"?

So now, what?
Pay can be in forms other than money,
eg, barter.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
I don't know any IRL.


ic-engines-10-638.jpg
Wu's gonna keep thinking you're the reason I have such a dirty mind. But truly, it's more Alice Cooper and Steven Tyler who got me started on being able to sure see an expansion stroke there, with a firm compression stroke, and some suction and exhaust going on.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Wu's gonna keep thinking you're the reason I have such a dirty mind. But truly, it's more Alice Cooper and Steven Tyler who got me started on being able to sure see an expansion stroke there, with a firm compression stroke, and some suction and exhaust going on.
The eroticism of internal combustion engines, eh.
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Wu's gonna keep thinking you're the reason I have such a dirty mind. But truly, it's more Alice Cooper and Steven Tyler who got me started on being able to sure see an expansion stroke there, with a firm compression stroke, and some suction and exhaust going on.
Say, what?
 

savagewind

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Different minds.
She sees whoopee being made.
I see mechanical & thermodynamic processes.
Both do have educational value though.
I just love how you can empty my mind.

We might agree on one thing.* One with at (I'll never be the boss!) Are you young? Are you still learning? Yes! You are young!*


* To be educated
 
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