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Re: Team Update #18

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
He (along with many others) already thanked Richard in post#5 of the thread you linked. But thanks once again, Richard :-)

He was giving you credit for seemingly being the first to provide the physics formulas I think Richard had provided that in post #7 of that now famous thread.

I guess there is always a healthy back and forth between thinking of the academic physics (thought experiments) and going into the lab to make fundamental measurements AND sharing them.

Those that have sophisticated tools like a dynamometer and share the results with everyone are making the math/physics very valuable.
Speed is a relatively easy thing for most teams to measure: actual motor performance is not and the vendor published curves are not always sufficient to the challenge.

FIRST also inadvertently made understanding of physics more important in the trigger mechanism. It's all good. There are physics lessons everywhere.
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