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    Comparing Trampoline Jumps on Earth vs. the Moon

    Taking out what your legs do - if you just drop balls of different mass from some initial height, it shouldn't matter if you are on the Earth or on the moon, idealistically, the ball will just bounce right back up to the same height it started at (without energy loss from heat/air resistance...
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    Comparing Trampoline Jumps on Earth vs. the Moon

    Hi! I'm trying to help my 5th grader with her science fair project - she's comparing how a trampoline would work on Earth vs. the moon. The trick is in the force of the jump I think - what the jumper herself puts into it. The larger the downward force she exerts on the mat the higher she...
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    Is a Tesseract the only model we have for 4D?

    Thanks TGlad! I guess I need to start playing around with a 4d matrix, that's a good tip.
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    Is a Tesseract the only model we have for 4D?

    Thank you for that. Are there any vids for rotating a 3D object into a 4D object? Like you can rotate a line to get a circle, then rotate a circle to get a sphere, seems like there would be some sort of rotation to get a 4D object out of a 3D one too, but I can't figure out the rotational...
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    Is a Tesseract the only model we have for 4D?

    Thanks, yea I've watched through vids like this: http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_reg_E.htm that try to teach you how to see higher dims from their distorted shadows. The problem with shadows is they are distorted... but cross sections are not. (In 2D you can walk around an undistorted cross...
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    Is a Tesseract the only model we have for 4D?

    I posted this in yahoo questions, but perhaps this is a better place for it. The Tesseract assumes that in order to add another Euclidean dimension another orthogonal plane is added into the mix, right? That is the pattern when going from 1D to 2D to 3D, but it seems like something slightly...
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