---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Thanks Stephen for this short article. I took the liberty of fixing the url link below. (You'd forgotten one backslash) Cheers RicB Stephen Birkett wrote: > John's illustration with the string and hanging weight is a nice one. > Here's an alternative way of looking at the same phenomenon, > including a demonstration of what happens if you vary the location of > the lead: > http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~sbirkett/inertia.pdf > > Some years back when the list was still innocent we had a discussion > of inertia. I recalI pointing out the discrepancy between static > balance which depends on the distance to the fulcrum and inertia > which depends on the square of the distance. > > Some might argue that the "assistance" provided by the lead in "soft" > playing actually makes the action MORE difficult to control. > > Stephen > > -- > Dr Stephen Birkett > Associate Professor > Department of Systems Design Engineering > University of Waterloo > Waterloo, Ontario > Canada N2L 3G1 > > Davis Building Room 2617 > tel: 519-888-4567 Ext. 3792 > PianoTech Lab Ext. 7115 > mailto: sbirkett[at]real.uwaterloo.ca > http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~sbirkett > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/62/da/e2/51/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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