For us engineers - a bit of fun

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Music Junkie
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Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:52 pm

O.K. you engineers (myself included).

Can anyone do the calcs on this one???????



I have been know to do some VERY stupid things in my day, but..........

MJ


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Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:24 pm

EE here. That is in the realm of CE's. Right, Bear?


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Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:57 pm

haoli25 wrote:
EE here. That is in the realm of CE's. Right, Bear?


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Wait, I've almost got the equation worked out! Now was acceleration squared or was it the square root? Let's see, I need to find "x" but MJ says "x" always equals 8... so "y" must equal -4, or is it +5?

Okay, I've got it! If that dude kept going he would gradually acellerate to the speed of light at which point he would warp into another dimension.

Ooooohhh, this civil engineering stuff makes my head hurt!!! :silly:


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Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:22 pm

I'm pretty sure the degree you need to pull this one off isn't in Engineering, but rather Computer Graphics... :)


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Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:23 pm

Damn, I forgot the distance to the pool. Image


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Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:18 pm

Knew I'd get the fun juices flowing with this one. I agree with fjvdb in that computer graphics and video editing are probably at work here, but you gotta admit, it looks like fun (or at least something that would have passed for fun back in college...)....lol

I would do it if I was flying into an olympic sized pool, but no way on earth I would do it into that little bucket!

:woohoo:


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Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:24 pm

The difficulty is to survive the first three trials before you know where to put the pool.
Marc


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Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:59 pm

The Engineer idea of fun is extremely disturbing! :blink:


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Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:57 pm

check the decay in the angle of descent to the pool. there isn't any.

this video was made for a German ad for Microsoft Office, and yes, it's all graphics editing and no physics. no calculators were injured in the making of this film.


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Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:10 pm

wrench wrote:
check the decay in the angle of descent to the pool. there isn't any.

this video was made for a German ad for Microsoft Office, and yes, it's all graphics editing and no physics. no calculators were injured in the making of this film.
Maybe that's why my calculations didn't work! LMAO!! :silly:


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