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Re: For those who are skeptical about propellers - Team 2526

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Originally Posted by dooey100 View Post
I don't mean to derail, but I didn't think this was worthy of its own topic: Has anyone done the math on a verticle propellor pushing the robot down harder?
Yes. The GDC has. Their math says that you have to divide by zero, then integrate with respect to X, then again with respect to Y...

Or, to put it more simply, you can't. I've brought this up here before, and in another thread that went on a similar tangent: http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=11025
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