[ExI] underwater sprinkler, was: RE: Musical instruments in space
BillK
pharos at gmail.com
Sun Mar 31 22:37:02 UTC 2013
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 11:05 PM, spike wrote:
> Ja. But give us equations, me lad. We cannot solve sentences and
> paragraphs, we cannot derive a control system from it. If we do this right,
> we could play a song with that underwater sprinkler. It would be a fun
> accomplishment. We could show it to the controls grad students and ask
> them: can you do this?
>
>
I doubt it. The effect is very small and experiments only show the
effect with very low-friction bearings on the sprinkler. i.e. a
specially made sprinkler with 'expensive' bearings.
But the equations are in the referenced papers.
See: <http://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.3190v4.pdf>
BillK
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