JAT wrote:Yes bud swains cay lodge on the middle bite

You're really roughing it then! . Looks great. Andros has the angriest horseflies in the Bahamas though :p .

JAT wrote:heading to Andros on the 20th April looking forward to it!

are you going to a lodge?

I think one of the mistakes made by myself here is showing the results of the model for situations that are a million miles away from a cast. For example, the answer I gave for Aitor's experiment showed an oscillating result. However look at the time base, I plotted this out to 6 seconds (I don't k...

I once fended off an angry Jack Russell - no one called me a hero, and I didn't make it on to Sky news :???: . Just don't understand it - I'm Welsh too They possibly thought you'd mistaken it for a very small sheep :p The way it was biting at my trousers it was no wonder they ended up around my ank...

This represents a steady extension of the spring under an increasing load. Mark, I think this is where you're going wrong with how you're visualising this. This is down to boundary conditions. Suppose the spring is already extended before you start accelerating. The constant acceleration (constant ...

Trev, When the hanging mass is dropped, it obviously initially accelerates at 1 g . Initially there is no extension in the spring so the force on the table mass (counterweight) is zero. As the spring extends, so the retarding force on the falling mass increases, thus it's rate of acceleration decre...

Hi Grunde, I'll change my spreadsheet to reflect Aitor's experiment in due course - therefore what follows is more of a gut feeling : My initial thoughts are that Aitor's two masses will end up with a static spring extension between them, up to the point when the one subject to gravity hits the flo...

The spring in a sense takes kinetic energy out of the falling brick and transfer it to the sliding brick (the falling brick does more work on the other brick when the spring is introduced). The mechanism is exactly the same as for the brick-spring-car model, only the boundary condition is changed (...