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Re: The physics of pushing
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Originally Posted by Ether
Nice catch. In my haste I labelled "h" as the vertical distance from the force to the ground. It should be the vertical distance from the force to the horizontal witness line through the center of the rear wheels.
See corrected diagram in original post.
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Oops! I actually liked where you had it the first time -- changing the diagram has now gone and made my earlier post invalid -- except it now agrees with my calculations! Whew!
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Last edited by Ken Streeter : 23-05-2012 at 16:30.
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