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    Climbing with Rope: Shock Dynamics Explained

    Hello I often go climbing. When I went with a guide recently he told me that you should be especially carefull when climbing when you only have a small length of rope paid out arguing that because the rope is so short at this point it must take a large shock under a fall. Conversley, if you...
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    Stresses in a rotating object?

    Has anyone considered the following. If I have a really big disc and rotate it at a certain angular velocity. Then at some distance from the centre the tangential speed of the disc will equal the speed of light and any distance beyond will have a speed greater than that of light. Obviously...
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    Deriving Irradiance of Diffraction Gratings with Non-Uniform Slit Separation

    Dear all I've been pondering this problem for a while but am daunted by the maths I suspect is required. Consider the irradiance from a diffraction grating: I=I0(sinB/B)^2 . (sin Na/sin a)^2 where a=0.5kdsin(theta) b=0.5kwsin(theta) I0= max irradiance N= No of slits k=...
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