Where does all this mystery come from ? Davids formula is just another way of applying the law of leverages. Its easy enough to factor out the weight components of the equation and arrive at a more simple and straightforward equality for the action ratio. This is, and can never be anything else then the product of the ratios of the three levers. There has to be consistancy between weight, distance, and speed in a levers ratio. Whatever the ratio of any given lever is, its has the same effect on these three. This is basic to the law of levers. Any ratio that results in something else has simply got to be a measure of something else. Could be a valuable something else in another context, but just so.. Cheers RicB Isaac OLEG wrote: > Terry, > > The drawback of this method is that the leverage is changing during > the stroke (more or less depending of the action setup, kind of > whippen, etc... > > At this moment seems to me that only David's method gives an evened > appreciation of what goes on for all the stroke. > > Regards > > Isaac OLEG > -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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