Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-kirk!williams From: williams@kirk.DEC (John Williams 223-3402) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: The membrane cup PMM Message-ID: <1501@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Apr-85 13:18:57 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1501 Posted: Thu Apr 4 13:18:57 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Apr-85 04:15:35 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 11 1) The track length is useless beyond a certain value. The water pressure will increase as you go down in depth, causing the displacement to equalize diagonally across opposite sides. 2) The position of the weights show that the vector addition of the gravity vectors for these weights will cancel out any force supplied by the displacement. John Williams