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Re: Team UPDATE - 2014-01-10

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
How is 36 square inches of anything going to hold a ball rigidly enough to deflect another ball? I really, really don't see this happening.
I saw a video the other day of a team holding a ball with a shop vac. It seemed pretty stable to me, and wouldn't violate the 6" diameter cylinder rule. Also, a 6" diameter cylinder isn't 36 square inches in cross section. That would be the area for a square cross section 6" per side, and as the diagonal of such a square would be longer than 6", it would be illegal per R3. The largest cross section available is about 28 inches, per the area formulae for a circle, pi*r^2.
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