
09-01-2006, 14:23
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Founder 830/1015;Mentor 66/470/1502
 FRC #0470 (Alpha Omega Robotics)
Team Role: Engineer
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Rookie Year: 1994
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Posts: 491
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Foxtrot Comic link Re: Calculating Angle to fire at
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Originally Posted by varcsscotty
OK! something really funny just happened. I was working on these trajectories and having quite the frustrating time with them....
In walks my brother with the comics section of The Oregonian newspaper. He tells me to read the Foxtrot comic, so I do. And what do I find? I find the Foxtrot dude doing equations to calculate the trajectory of a snowball. That made my day! So I got the equations now...heeheehee
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Here's the comic: http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/2006/01/08/
Enjoy!
- Keith
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