Prob-ably ?Does that mean we have to call you Prof Rob from now on?
Prob-ably ?Does that mean we have to call you Prof Rob from now on?
Thanks for the input Rob.As an associate professor at UCL, I too read the second comma as being unnecessary
FWIW lol
I hope your ashamed of yourself for this!!!Prob-ably ?
I hope not! lolDoes that mean we have to call you Prof Rob from now on?
Brilliant - hope she is enjoying it!Thanks for the input Rob.
My niece is in her 2nd year ay UCL.
Some sort of history degree.
Yeh, she's loving it.Brilliant - hope she is enjoying it!
my daughter has just completed her first year and I can’t believe how quickly it’s gone!!!
I take it your kids are like mine, got their brains from their mum.Yeh, she's loving it.
She's a shy girl and has come out of her shell at UCL.
Her course is 4 years, with the 3rd being overseas. So she's off to Dublin for next year, but regretting it quite a bit as she'd like to be carrying on in her digs with her flatmates. Sure she'll enjoy it though.
My son and his girlfriend flew into London this week, taking 4 months out touring UK & Europe before returning for PHDs and getting married next year. They met at 'summer school' at UC which was a prerequisite for them starting their physics degrees.
She's quite taken by London, and Michael has always hated that we've pulled him away from it (that was until he met a Kiwi girl). So he's asked if you have any PHD funding available?
Bejesus NO!I take it your kids are like mine, got their brains from their mum.
Test temp doesn't seem to effect the results unless you get close to the point where you make the vcu's fluid fail by burning and going much thicker. Or it starts to freeze.Thanks
I completely understand just using this as a comparative test - I was just curious
I did my own spreadsheet: analysis from the data from around your link
If speed was simply proportional to the torque the power of x in the below would have been -1, but its not.
Interestingly (for a geek like me anyway) Hippo's, Chris2000's and Seraphin's values all lie along the same trend line
BUT, MrBlockPaving's are much quicker
He did say he did it at 6 degrees C though
I thought, wait a minute but viscosity usually increases with lower temp so his times should be higher
Then I realised - the whole point of the VCU is that it has a special fluid in that has a viscosity that increases with temp (that's how it works)
So that makes absolute sense
What I think is interesting is that not only are times are obviously strongly linked to test temp (I would probably get long time values on a hot Portugal summer 40 C day) but also that the way the times vary with weight also change, so you cant simply assume a constant relationship between time and weight or length - this effect is confounded with temperature - the effects of two parameters interact - the strength of the effect of varying the weight depends on the temperature.
So, in a nutshell, I would do the test with a standard weight and length bar as designated by Senhor Lord Hippo (what is that by the way?) so that everyone's results are comparable
I would also make sure that the bar is the same weight in each case, or even make sure that the weight of the bar plus the hanging weight was a standard weight
I would also at least note the ambient temperature and try to ensure it was pretty close to room temperature if at all possible
Again, all the above in the spirit of my thoughts, I could well be completely wrong - but I enjoy finding things out and having theories shot down is part of that
Top line is Hippo & Chris2000 & Seraphin's data (top equation is Hippos only, Right equation is all 3 together)
Bottom line is MRBlockPavings data at 6 degrees C
R squared is just how well the line fits the data - extremely well here as its almost a perfect 1.0 (simplifying a bit)
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PS Maths wont hurt you, dont be scared
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